Car loaded with explosives found in Amritsar (Lead)
May 8th, 2010 - 9:44 pm ICT by IANSAmritsar, May 8 (IANS) A car with two kg of explosives was found abandoned near the busy railway station here Saturday, police said. It carried a fake Delhi registration number.
“The car (DEA 5554) was found near the crowded station,” Amritsar police commissioner Varinder Kumar Sharma told IANS.
“The shopkeepers of the area informed the police about the suspicious vehicle. We cordoned off the area,” he added.
Sharma said: “One detonator and two packets of explosives, weighing nearly two kilograms, were recovered from the vehicle. The packets have been sent to the laboratory to ascertain their exact content and the nature of the explosives.”
“An extensive search operation has been launched in the area,” he added.
Police took the help of sniffer dogs and the bomb disposal squad while searching the area.
Police sources said that besides explosives, a cooking gas cylinder was also found inside the car.
Hundreds of passengers commute through the railway station in Amritsar, around 217 km from Chandigarh and about 28 km from the Wagah border with Pakistan.
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