पालक्कड़ में तरबूनों के बीच छुपाकर भारी विस्फोटक पकड़ा गया

Palakkad: A large cache of explosives was seized while trying to smuggle them among watermelons in Palakkad. The vehicle that tried to escape without stopping on the Walayar-Vadakkancherry National Highway was chased and caught. The driver, Senthil Kumar, a native of Tamil Nadu, was arrested. About 18000 gelatin sticks and about 5000 detonators in more than a hundred boxes were seized. These were hidden among watermelons in the pickup van. The vehicle did not stop when the police waved their hand during a check on the service road in Yakkara near the Palakkad Government Medical College Hospital. The police said these were explosives used in quarries. Driver Senthil Kumar told the police that they were transporting the items from Thuppur, Dharapuram, Tamil Nadu to Thrissur. The bomb squad also reached the spot and inspected. The driver is being questioned for more details. Last year alone, Palakkad and Coimbatore police seized more than forty thousand gelatin sticks and more than five thousand detonators that were being smuggled from Tamil Nadu to Kerala.