Colombian police seize seven tonnes explosives
April 7th, 2011 - 11:32 am ICT by IANSBogota (Colombia), April 7 (IANS) Colombian police have seized at least seven tonnes of explosives in the Arauca department near the border with Venezuela.
“Through the development of an intelligence operation we were able to seize seven tonnes of ammoniac nitrate,” which is the base of powerful explosives, Xinhua quoted Arauca’s Police Commander William Guevara stating to local radio station La FM.
Guevara said the substance mixed with hydrocarbon and aluminum becomes Ammonal, an explosive made up of ammonium nitrate, trinitrotoluene (TNT), and aluminium powder is an explosive known to be used by Colombia’s illegally armed groups in car bombs, anti-personnel mines and other explosive devices.
He said based on the volume of explosive material seized in the operation “the seven tons could be used to load 20 car bombs and about 2,500 antipersonnel mines.”
Guevara did not reveal when the operation was carried out, but said the police have arrested two people who allegedly were members of the “10th front of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia,” also known as the FARC guerilla group.
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