Police seized a huge cache of explosives and other bomb making devices from a passenger mini-bus en route to Abu Khaireni from Beshisahar of Lamjung district on Friday.
A routine checkup at a security checkpoint by the police found 500 kgs of gelatin including 300 meter fuse wire and 72 pieces detonators hidden inside the van, reports said.
It was not immediately known who was traveling with such a huge amount of explosive devices or whether the police made any arrests.
The driver and the van is learnt to be currently under police custody.
Meanwhile, Maoist vice-chairman Narayan Kazi Shrestha has said that explosive devices recovered from a Sundhara guesthouse recently did not belong to the party and the persons involved in it were not his party cadres.
Speaking at a face-to-face programme organised here on Friday, Shrestha said his party's May 1 demonstrations to exert pressure on the government to step down will be peaceful and warned the government not to suppress it
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