Moodbidri: Moodbidri police have seized a huge cache of explosives including 4,923 detonator sticks which were  stocked  in plastic bags and gunny bags in concrete drainage pipe in  Kadandale village of Paladka Gram Panchayat limits.

A local villager named Harish Poojari first noticed the explosives while grazing his cattle. Police said the explosives belonged to a quarry located about one and half km away from the spot.

It is learnt, a blast in the same company had killed three labourers last year.Senior police officials have visited the spot and the detonators have been shifted to a safer location.