A total of 161 packets of suspected explosive material have been recovered from near a school in Uttarakhand’s Almora, police said Friday.

The principal of Government Inter College, Dabra, informed the local police station on Thursday that while playing near the school, some children noticed a suspicious substance strewn in bushes nearby. A police team reached the spot and secured the area, and 161 sticks with suspicious explosives were recovered from the site.

SSP Devendra Pincha on Friday night said the explosives were similar to gelatin sticks used commonly in road construction work for stone blasting. “We are probing how the substance ended up at the spot,” he said, appealing to the public not to pay attention to rumours regarding this matter.

On Friday, the bomb disposal and dog sq

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