Two arrested with explosive substances

Kathmandu : The District Police Office Kalikot has arrested two people along with explosive substances.

Those arrested in this connection are 36-year-old Durga Raj Bohara of Lalu, Naraharinath Rural Municipality-9 Kalikot district and 32-year-old Padam Bahadur Pun of Bherimalika Municipality-2, Jajarkot district.

They were arrested this morning and both are the cadres of the outfit led by Netra Bikram Chand, police said.

A gun, a pressure cooker, 24 units of detonators, nine units of sockets, one kilogram of sulpher, half a kilogramme of soda were confiscated from them, Information Officer at the DPO, Yakshya Kumar Joshi said.

They would be tried under the Prevention of Explosive Substances Act.