After truck laden with explosives, arms seized in Patna

SUNDAY GAINS: Security personnel seized huge cache of firearms, ammunition from house in Patna.

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Patna: Close on the heels of seizure of 300 kg of bomb making materials from an abandoned truck in the city on Saturday night, security personnel on Sunday seized a huge cache of firearms and ammunition from a house in Patna.

Special Task Force (STF) Superintendent of Police Prakash Sinha told PTI that six country made carbines, eight semi-prepared carbines, two country made pistols, 7221 live cartridges, fifty detonators, and other chemicals used for making bombs were seized from the rented part of a house owned by a retired government employee.

Sinha said that 300 kg of bomb making materials were recovered from an abandoned truck near old by-pass road in Kankerbagh locality late Saturday night.

The explosives seized from the vehicle included potassium nitrate, ammonium nitrate, copper sulphate and other chemical substance.