Six crude bombs found in Amritsar

Amritsar, June 17 (UNI) Six crude bombs were recovered from Chheharta area of this district today.

The crude bombs were found this afternoon during the digging process by the labourers on steel factory land, which was now being levelled to cut out plots for sale, Senior Superintendent of Police S S Srivastva said.

The factory had been lying closed for some years and the bombs seemed to have been part of very old scrap used for steel manufacturing, he said.

Police had taken the bombs in its possession and their exact nature and the intensity would be worked out by the Army experts later, he added.

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