Srinagar, Aug 12: Three days ahead of the Independence Day, police today busted a bomb manufacturing unit in Budgam district in central Kashmir and recovered a huge cache of explosives, including 42 kg of RDX, police sources said. Acting on a tip-off, a police party raided a deserted house at Gopalpora, about 12 km from here, and recovered 42 kg of RDX, 14 barrels of hydrogen peroxide, one drum of carbon tetrachloride, 98 cans of sulphuric acid, 128 bottles of nitric acid and 100 plastic pipes from a cellar well constructed under the house, they said.
"Had the recovered explosives gone off even accidentally, it would have been enough to wreak havoc in a five-km radius from the site," the sources said.
One person was arrested in this connection, they said.
A senior police officer, who headed the raiding party, told reporters that the explosives were meant to disrupt the independence day celebrations and that the civil secretariat was one of the intended target. Bureau Report