Police seize 100 live missiles from Uttaranchal steel yard

     Kashipur: The police seized over 100 live missiles in a series of raids at a steel factory in Kashipur, a small town in Uttaranchal on Sunday. This is one of the biggest such seizures since live missiles mistaken as scrap ripped through a steel plant on the outskirts of New Delhi killing 10 people in September last year. The factory, sitting amidst a bustling commercial centre in the town, had been sealed for further investigations and officials are trying to link incident with the series of similar seizures in northern and northwestern India. Umaid Singh, senior sub-inspector of police said, that a search was on in the sprawling unit. "We have recovered around 34 to 35 small missiles. Earlier team had also unearthed missiles and they are going to dispose them," said Singh. Initial reports said the factory could have imported the explosives from a West Asian country. Police have cracked down on steel factories across the country since the scrap explosion in September and made several seizures of mortar shells, ammunition and rockets many of them live explosives, from scrap imports. India has banned scrap imports from war zones in the wake of the accidental blast and said, that it would allow scrap imports only in shredded form.
- Jan 31, 2005

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