ITANAGAR, Nov 30 (PTI): Days after three children were killed in a blast while toying with a live bomb at Arunachal Pradesh’s Anjaw district, army authorities have requested people in the region to return all live mortar shells they might have collected from a nearby firing range.

 

Army personnel, along with district administration officials, have been going from door to door to request locals, who have, so far, responded positively to the initiative and given up the ammunition they had been holding, defence spokesperson Col Chiranjit Konwer said Friday.

“Over the last two days, 554 shells submitted by the villagers were destroyed by the Army at Nara Tiding firing range,” Konwer said.

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Kenter Joya Riba

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