Information About Incident 40314-77172-188761 in Purba Champaran India

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A cache of explosives, including 300 detonators and 400 kilograms of ammonium nitrate, kept for delivery to the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres were recovered from a house in the Rohtas District on October 7. Acting on a tip-off, the Police raided the house at Dhaudad village under Mufassil Police Station and recovered the explosives, Additional Director General of Police (Headquarters), Neelmani, told PTI.

From this sentence, the following information was extracted.

• Meta Location: Dhaudad
• Matched District: Purba Champaran
• Actgroup: attack
• Actor: the Police
• Subject: the house

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A cache of explosives, including 300 detonators and 400 kilograms of ammonium nitrate, kept for delivery to the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres were recovered from a house in the Rohtas District on October 7. Acting on a tip-off, the Police raided the house at Dhaudad village under Mufassil Police Station and recovered the explosives, Additional Director General of Police (Headquarters), Neelmani, told PTI. Besides 150 metres of wire used for detonators was also seized from the house, he said, adding, three persons, including two women, were also arrested in this connection. Police suspect that the explosives were to be used for exploding the Sasaram jail, where a large number of Maoists are lodged, adds Hindustan Times. The Superintendent of Police (SP), Vikas Vaibhav, said the explosives were recovered from an area adjacent to the District Prison. We have arrested two women activists of the CPI (Maoist) with the cache of ammunitions. The recovery of such a huge quantity of explosives indicates towards a big plan of the Maoists. The raids are still continuing, he added.

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