Yemeni police seized 1.5 tons of gunpowder and TNT explosives during a raid in a rural area in central Dhamar province yesterday, security officials said. They said police in the Wasab Al-Aali District, about 100 kilometers south of the capital Sanaa, were tipped off that explosives weighing some 1,560 kilograms were to be stashed in a building in the district. Police raided the building and seized the explosives, Brig. Abdu Darjan Al-Qasimi, the district's top police officer, told reporters. He said the building owner was arrested, but other suspects managed to escape.