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| 1,950 detonators seized |
| A police team looking for detonators in a palm grove at Irumeni village near Mandapam
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| INDIA
, 29-March-2007
3:44:36 AM |
| About 1,950 detonators have been seized by the police from places near Mandapam early on Wednesday.
They were meant to be smuggled to Sri Lanka. No one has been arrested, but five persons belonging to Pamban and Alaikathavalasai, nearby areas, were being questioned.
The detonators were hidden in a palm grove at Irumeni, a coastal hamlet near Mandapam. A police team, which included personnel from the Bomb Detection and Disposal Squad, undertook extensive digging in the early hours of Wednesday and found a sack containing the detonators.
Following this, the team searched the adjoining areas and a similar bag was found. While the first bag contained 19 bundles of detonators, the second had 20 bundles. Each bundle, wrapped in a newspaper, had 50 electric detonators. "The seizure was a result of the high alert of the 16 police teams formed to prevent smuggling from here to Sri Lanka," Superintendent of Police R. Thirugnanam told The Hindu at Irumeni.
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