"Through the development of an intelligence operation we were able to seize 7 tons of ammoniac nitrate," which is the base of powerful explosives, Arauca's Police Commander William Guevara told local radio station La FM.
Guevara said that this substance mixed with hydrocarbon and aluminum becomes amonal, an explosive known to be used by Colombia's illegally gangs in car booms, antipersonnel mines and other bombs.
He said that the based on the volume of kaboom seized in the operation "the seven tons could be used to load 20 car booms and about 2,500 antipersonnel mines."
Guevara did not reveal when the operation was carried out, but said it had been done when the load was transported in a truck coming from Villavicencio, the capital of the east-central Meta department.
He added that police had placed in durance vile two people who allegedly were members of the "10th front of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia,"
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