Information About Incident 57901-114790-290919 in Mandi India

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Odisha Police arrested five persons and seized around 6,000 detonators which was being transported in a private bus at Lanji palli bypass road on the national highway in the Andhra-Odisha Border (AOB) on September 19, reported The Times of India.

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Odisha Police arrested five persons and seized around 6,000 detonators which was being transported in a private bus at Lanji palli bypass road on the national highway in the Andhra-Odisha Border (AOB) on September 19, reported The Times of India. The material was being transported to Berhampur in Ganjam District of Odisha, sources said. Police suspect that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) were procuring the explosives as the main accused, Pintu Sethi, could not produce valid papers for transportation of the material which he claimed that the detonators are for blasting quarries. The detonators were packed in two containers consisting of 120 bundles. Each bundle had 50 detonators. Police were conducting vehicle check when they stopped the private bus from Andhra Pradesh and came across the huge stockpile. With this quantity of detonators, hundreds of landmines could be put to use, a senior Police officer said. The other arrestees were bus driver A Rama Rao, conductor S Krishna Murthy, B Rukmangadharao and cleaner Vikas Bishoi.

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57901-114790-290919 9/21/2012 India Five persons arrested with 6,000 detonators near Andhra-Odisha Border

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