Aizawl: Continuing its efforts to curb anti-national activities the Assam rifles along with Mizoram police have seized a huge cache of explosives and arrested one person in Mizoram Mizoram’s Aizawl district, an official said on Sunday.
Official sources said that acting on specific intelligence information about the movement of explosives in Durtlang Leitan areas of Aizawl district, Assam Rifles and Mizoram Police established a mobile vehicle check post on Durtlang to Kawnpui road on Saturday night.
The alert security team stopped a vehicle and on thorough search recovered 7,000 different coloured electric detonators and apprehended a person identified as Runmawia (34).
The apprehended individual and the recovered items have been handed over to Mizoram Police.
A senior Mizoram Police officer said that even as they have been questioning the arrested individual, they suspect that the electric detonators are likely to be smuggled to either Myanmar or Bangladesh.