Rourkela, May 27 (PTI) Suspected Maoists on Tuesday allegedly looted a truckload of explosives being transported to a stone quarry in Odisha's Sundergarh district.

Sources said a group of masked and armed persons detained a truck carrying about 200 packets of gelatin in a forested area under the K Balang police station limits.

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The place, considered a Maoist hotbed, is in close vicinity of the Saranda forests in the adjacent West Singhbhum district of Jharkhand.

The explosive-laden vehicle was on its way to Banko from Badgaon.

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The suspected Maoists held the truck driver at gunpoint before looting the explosives, local sources said.

When contacted, Odisha DGP Y B Khurania neither confirmed nor denied Maoist involvement in the incident.

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