Security forces on Thursday recovered a massive quantity of explosives including gelatin sticks, detonators and fuse wire from two places in the state.
The Assam police recovered as many as 90 gelatin sticks, 100 packets of detonators inside an abandoned bag at Machkhowa bus terminus of Assam State Transport Corporation in Guwahati. The police picked up five persons for interrogation following the recovery of explosives.
In another such haul of explosives, the Government Railway Police personnel recovered three bags full of explosive from Lower Haflong Railway station in Haflong town in troubled Dima Hasao hill district of Assam. The bags containing explosive materials were found lying unattended on the platform after the Up Silchar-Lumding Cachar Express left the station past midnight.
The GRP personnel recovered 150 gelatin sticks, 600 detonators and over 30 feet of fuse wires from these abandoned bags. The in-charge of GRP personnel at Lower Haflong station said that investigation was on to find of the source and destination of these recovered substances.
It is suspected that the explosives were dumped on the platform by the carriers to avoid detection while GRP personnel were carrying out routine checks inside coaches of the Cachar Express after it had reached Lower Haflong station.
Security measures in Guwahati have been tightened up after apprehensions that anti-national elements might target the city.
