Information About Incident 10728-18435-43705 in Banswara India

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The arrests and seizures followed a breakthrough on November 4 when Frazer Town police in Bangalore arrested two persons moving suspiciously near the Banaswadi railway station and found gelatin sticks and grenades in their possession.

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Karnataka Home Minister Mallikarjuna Kharge, who announced the seizure, said the arrests might have averted a possible attack on civil and defence installations in Bangalore. The arrests and seizures followed a breakthrough on November 4 when Frazer Town police in Bangalore arrested two persons moving suspiciously near the Banaswadi railway station and found gelatin sticks and grenades in their possession. Subsequent investigations led the police team to a huge cache of explosives and equipment used to assemble the devices in godowns and houses owned by three of their accomplices in the area. Some of the arrested persons were reportedly trained in handling explosives by the PLOTE in 1985.

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10728-18435-43705 11/10/2002 India Five suspected terrorists arrested in Bangalore, huge cache of explosives seized

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