Police seizes large quantity of explosives

Police personnel seized a huge cache of explosives in Allahabad on Wednesday. While randomly checking vehicular traffic, the police chanced upon these explosive items from a van, which they detained. Out of the four men inside the van three were arrested but the fourth person managed to give a slip to the police constables. The police claimed to have recovered total 3.5 quintals of ammonium nitrate, 4500 plain detonators, 50-metre fuse wire and 173 gelatine dynamite tubes.