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13 kg RDX found in Maharashtra
Published on Mon, May 15, 2006 at 07:48, Updated on Mon, May 15, 2006 at 11:43 in India section
Tags: Terrorist, Lashkar-e-Toiba , Maharashtra
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Maharashtra: In yet another explosive haul, the Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) of the Mumbai police along with the Nashik police seized 13 kg of RDX, five AK-47 rifles, 1000 rounds of cartridges and 20 magazines.
The explosives were seized from an electronics shop in Malegaon.
According to ATS officials, this raid was conducted after diclosures from four alleged Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) militants who were arrested from Malegaon two days ago.
This is for the third time in a week that explosives have been seized.
Though the seized material has been brought to Mumbai from Malegaon, police suspect that ruralk Maharashtra might slowly be becoming either a target for terrorists or a base for terror.
Combing operations are going on in Maharastra for police believe there could be more explosives hidden in rural areas.
The ATS had just last week, seized a huge cache of explosives and weapons in raids conducted at various places in the Aurangabad district.
Ten AK-47 rifles, 30 kg of explosives and 11 boxes of 2,000 live catridges were seized as was a Tata Sumo vehicle.
The operation was conducted by a joint team of Delhi and Mumbai police officials, three kilometres from the popular tourist spot - Ellora caves.
The team was working on specific intelligence that a group of LeT terrorists was planning to launch a terror attack on the Ellora caves.
One person, Amir Shakeel Ahmed, aged 30, was arrested and two other persons were detained for interrogation.
A week before that, on May 8, two Lashkar terrorists were arrested following a shootout near the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in New Delhi.
A top Lashkar terrorist, Abu Hamza, had been killed in the shootout.
The police had found a slip of paper on Hamza with an address of a house in Ballabhgarh on the outskirts of Delhi, where they found a huge cache of arms and ammunition including 2 AK 56 rifles, 179 cartridges, 10 hand grenades, nitric acid, urea a timer circuit and other materials used in making bombs.
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