More than five kg of explosive recovered from a car in Ambala

AMBALA: On Thursday police said, a possible terror attack was foiled just days before the Diwali festival as over 5-kg explosives and detonators found from a car parked outside the Ambala Cantt Railway Station.

In a blue Indica car parked outside the railway station a joint police team of Delhi and Haryana found the explosives last night.

From Madhuban and other neighbouring places bomb disposal squads were summoned.

Haryana’s Director General of Police, Ranjiv Dalal, who along with senior officials of Haryana Police rushed to the spot, said, “Five detonators, two timer devices, five kg explosives in two packets and two batteries were seized from the car lying parked outside the railway station.”

Also a box of sweets was found lying in the car, which showed that it was purchased from Jammu’s Bari Brahmna area besides two newspapers from Jammu and Kashmir.

The car was bearing a fake registration number of Haryana and police suspect that it was a stolen one.

Police said the nature of explosives was being studied. The explosives have been sent for forensic test and a team of National Security Guard (NSG) from Delhi has been rushed to the spot.

Police also suspect that the target of the terror could have been a military installation in the Ambala region.