Raipur/New Delhi, May 20: Naxals have hijacked a truck carrying 16.5 tonnes of high-grade ammonium nitrate– which is used for making explosives–in Chattisgarh’s Bastar district and the transporting company is in trouble.
Police have launched an operation to trace the huge quantity of chemical looted yesterday by the Maoists after the truck which was on its way from Vishakapatnam in Andhra Pradesh to the Chattisgarh capital to deliver the consignment to a factory was waylaid.
Official sources said today the truck carrying the ammonium nitrate, which is an ingredient for high nitrogen fertiliser and which can be used for making explosives as well, was hijacked by the Naxals in an area hit by Left-wing extremists.
The route through Bastar is the shortest one to reach Raipur from Vishakapatnam. No security guard had accompanied the truck.
–Agencies