More explosives seized from Siliguri house

 As
many as 1,300 detonators were seized in Siliguri in West Bengal’s Darjeeling
district during a follow up investigation from a house from where a large
amount of explosives was found two days back, police said on Wednesday.

“The officers of
Pradhannagar police station have seized 1,300 detonators while running a raid
in a house at Assam road in Siliguri on Tuesday night,” police said.

“We have seized total 13 boxes, each containing 100
detonators from the house while looking through the piles of furniture,”
Deputy Commissioner of Police, Siliguri Commissionerate, Indra Chakrabarty told
reporters.

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A large quantity of explosives and detonators was seized from
the same house in Siliguri last Saturday and three Nepali citizens were
arrested during the raid.

“We got the tip-off about more explosives being stashed
in the house while interrogating the three accused,” DCP Chakrabarty said.

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