West Bengal: CID recovers explosive material, detonators in Birbhum

CID recovered 238 packets each containing 50 kg of ammonium nitrate from an unauthorized storeroom during a raid at Rampurhat in West Bengal. After the violence that has been taken place on July 7 in the city, police conducted simultaneous raids and recovered live bombs and weapons.

Birbhum(West Bengal): The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) seized 238 packets each containing 50 kg of ammonium nitrate from an unauthorized storeroom at Rampurhat area in West Bengal's Birbhum district on Wednesday.

During the raid conducted by the CID, eight bags each containing10 packets of 1,000 detonators were also found in a nearby culvert.

Earlier on July 7, in a massive crackdown on violence involving arms and explosives in the city, the West Bengal police conducted simultaneous raids and recovered 112 pieces of live bombs, six country-made weapons and arrested 399 people under specific and preventive sections of the Indian Penal Code(IPC).