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Pakistan seizes 100 tons of bomb-making material in Quetta

By REUTERS

AUGUST 20, 2013 23:51

QUETTA, Pakistan - Security forces seized 100 tons of bomb-making material from Quetta, one of Pakistan's most violent cities, on Tuesday night, a security official said.

The material was the same type used in two bombings of a predominantly Shi'ite Muslim part of Quetta this year that killed around 200 people, Col. Maqbool Shah of the Frontier Corps told Reuters.

The raid came a day after two men were arrested driving a truck in the city with 15 tons of potassium chlorate, a chemical used in bomb-making, hidden under boxes of potato chips, Shah said.

Information from the two men led officers to a warehouse stocked with potassium chlorate, circuit wire, sulphur, aluminum powder, acid, detonating equipment, guns and ammunition. There were also machines to mix the materials together, he said.

Eighty drums of material had been prepared and were ready to explode if a detonator was attached, and ten people were arrested, he added.

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