Guwahati/Haflong: Huge quantity of explosive was today seized from three different places in Assam, including capital Guwahati, even as the Centre sounded a country-wide alert after an al-Qaeda video appeared in which the terror outfit threatened to carry out campaign in India.
Police said a bag was noticed by a youth at Machkhowa Assam State Transport Corporation (ASTC) bus stand here and he informed authorities about it.
Police rushed to the spot and with the help of CRPF seized 99 pieces of gelatin sticks and 100 detonators along with some other objects from the 10-kg bag.
Seven persons who were moving about suspiciously near the spot have been detained for interrogation, the police said.
In another incident, a powerful improvised explosive devise (IED) tied with a rope, with wires sticking out of it, was seized from a house in Bamunighat area in the outskirts of Sonapur city where an Air Force camp is located, the police said adding that the bomb weighed about 1.5 kg.
Huge quantity of explosives was seized from a train at Lower Haflong Railway station in Dima Hasao district.
GRP sources said the explosives were stashed in two bags and seized from a compartment of Silchar-bound Cachar Express coming from Lumding during a routine security check by GRP personnel at the station.
The explosives seized included 292 pieces of gelatin sticks, 600 pieces of detonators in six packets with 100 in each and three coils of fuse wire of three feet each, he said. Police are probing the matter to ascertain who smuggled the explosives into the state.
