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The Jakarta Post, 12/25/2002 3:03:40 PM

Police find 250 kilograms of raw explosives in Palu

JAKARTA (JP): Central Sulawesi Police on Wednesday found a stash of 250 kilograms of ammonium nitrate in Pau, AP reported.

The chemical material is the same fertilizer used to make the explosives used in the Oct. 12 Balibombings, which claimed at least 190 lives.

Police found the chemical, which was packaged in 10 sacks, in a car they had been following since Tuesday night in Palu, said police Col. Tatang Somantri.

The driver of the car was arrested, he said, addingofficers were still searching for the owner of the chemicals.

"If this was used to make a bomb, it would be much larger than the one in Bali," Tatang said.

Several bombs have exploded over the last year in Palu, around 1,500 kilometers northeast of Jakarta.

Ammonium nitrate is widely used by Indonesian farmers, while fisherman also use the substance to make bombs to stun fish in rivers or at sea.

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