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Maoists on Wednesday looted ammonium nitrate from a truck in a jungle near Dhamteri district of Chhattisgarh, the state's top police official said.
The truck driver told the police that the vehicle, which was coming from Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh, was stopped by the Maoists in the forest and the explosives were taken away by them, according to DGP Vishwa Ranjan.
The Naxals let off the driver who then informed the truck owner of the incident, Ranjan said adding the driver was being questioned.