KATHMANDU, NOV 25 - A team of police officers from Bhaktapur District Police Office seized a sizeable cache of explosives Sunday afternoon. The 25-kilogram cache, including 86 cases of gelatine, 10 kilograms of soda and a five-liter pressure cooker, has a combined potential of blowing up 86 vehicles, police said.
The consignment was recovered after police raided the premises of Ganesh Carpet at Palpasanagar, Suryabinayak, at 4:00 p.m. Sunday after being tipped off by an unidentified source. The factory, belonging to Buddhilal Shrestha, is situated in a house rented out by Chini Rijal.
According to Bhaktapur’s District Superintendent of Police Ramesh Shekhar Bajracharya, nine cases of the gelatine explosives have been imported from I. D. L Industries Ltd., based in Rourkela, India.Gelatine, a high explosive, can be used to make improvised bombs. The explosive was widely used in various explosions orchestrated in the Valley in recent times.
The seized cache of explosives bundled in a sack was hidden under the staircase buried under a pile of waste wool in the carpet factory, according to Inspector Tek Bahadur Gurung.
He further said that the factory owner has denied any knowledge about how the explosives came to the factory. Police are interrogating the owner as well as the staff of the factory.
Police sources said that the explosives were meant for some major terrorist attack in the capital.Posted on: 2003-11-24 08:54

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