Explosive intercepted in Guwahati Rly station

Railway police personnel on Wednesday recovered a huge quantity of high power explosives from a resident of Bihar who was travelling in a general coach of Delhi-bound North East Express at the Guwahati railway station.
The explosives including 12 high power gelatin sticks, 12 detonators, and fuse wires were seized during a routine check from a passenger of NE Express. He was identified as Mantu Singh who has confessed that he was carrying the explosives to Bihar after procuring the same in Mizoram bordering Myanmar. These were seized two days ahead of Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s day long visit to Assam to attend the Tarun Gogoi government’s first anniversary of the third consecutive term.