Police recovers huge cache of explosives from a house in Jamtara

A huge quantity of explosives were recovered from a house at Jamtara in Jharkhand, police said on Friday.

Acting on a tip off that the explosives were kept in the house of one Mantaz Ansari at Kuruwa village, the police raided and seized the materials, Narayanpur Police Station in-charge Saudagar Paswan said.

A total of 600 detonators, 195 gelatin sticks, fuse wire and some explosive powder were recovered during the raids conducted on Thursday, he said.

No arrest has been made as yet, he said, adding that an FIR was lodged under the Explosives Act.