Mangalore, October 22: Panic struck the public after they found a huge cache of explosives inside a concrete drainage pipe near Kadandale village under the limits of Paladka Gram Panchayat in Mangalore taluk.
Moodbidri police, who seized 4,923 detonators stuffed in plastic and gunny bags, said that the explosives and the place where they found were belonged to a local stone mining company.
Hareesh Poojary, a local herdsman, who noticed the hidden explosives while grazing his cattle Sunday evening immediately informed the villagers, who called the police.
Though the villagers presumed that naxalites might have hidden those explosives, police clarified that they belonged to 'Pobsons' stone mining company, situated at a distance of one-and-a-half kilometre from the spot.
Police said that three labourers had died last year in the same company due to an explosion.
While contacted the company owners said that they had stacked the inadequate detonators in a deserted place to avoid any kind of tragedy.
However local residents have urged police to take action against the company for its “irresponsible attitude”.
Moodbidri Circle inspector A K Thimmaiah and Tahsildar Basavaraj Palote and others visited the spot.
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