Pakistani security forces have confiscated over 100 tons of bomb-making material in Quetta, the provincial capital of Pakistanâ„¢s southwestern Balochistan, officials say.
The seizure came a day after Pakistani police captured two men driving a truck in the city carrying 15 tons of potassium chlorate, a chemical used for making bombs, cached under a number of boxes of potato chips, Col. Maqbool Shah of the paramilitary Frontier Corps said on Tuesday.
Shah went on to explain that the information taken from the two men led the security forces to a warehouse stoked with potassium chlorate, circuit wire, sulphur, aluminum powder, acid, detonating equipment, guns and ammunition.
He added that 10 suspects were also arrested and the forces found about 80 containers of explosives, which were ready to burst if a detonator was attached.
According to the Pakistani official, the discovered material was the same type used in the two bombings that took place in Quetta earlier this year and killed about 200 people. The outlawed Pakistani terrorist group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, which has been behind a series of deadly attacks in Pakistan, claimed responsibility for the two bombings in the troubled city.
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Republished from: Press TV