Seventy-five detonators along with a fuse wire and other materials were found abandoned in an iron box at Washim, a district headquarters town in Maharashtra on Tuesday, police said on Thursday.

The detonators were found in two small boxes behind a house by labourers working there, police said.

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Police have registered an offence under section 286 of IPC against unidentified persons.

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