Mangalore (Karnataka):The Karnataka Police seized explosives in a pre-dawn raid
conducted on Friday at Artadka in Bantwal Taluk of Mangalore District. Briefing media about
the seizure, Mangalore's Deputy Superintendent of Police Harishchandra gave a
detailed description of the explosives seized. "Today at 6 a.m. Sub Inspector
Banjunde Gowda of Bantwal Circle and Sub Inspector Savitt Teju of Vittala Police
Station conducted a raid at Artadka in Bantwal village...Bantwal Taluk and seized
about 100...1000 detonators and 650 gelatines," said Dy SP. Harishchandra. He
mentioned that 18 bags of ammonium nitrate were seized and each bag contained
50 kilograms. Besides this, around thousand electronic detonators 650 gelatine
sticks and battery charcoal were recovered during the raid. Six persons have been
arrested so far in this case and further investigations are in progress.
