Chinsurah, March 18: The recovery of six explosives from the Tata Motors’ small car project site in Singur’s Gopalnagar-Bosepukur area today created a flutter, reports our correspondent.

Police and bomb experts were called in after one of the explosives went off around 3.30 this morning, leaving a hole in the boundary wall of the project site.

The area has been cordoned off and a manhunt is on to identify who could have left the explosives there. Some officers said outsiders could have planted them.

Experts from the bomb squad collected the explosives from a hole and later defused them.

Anuj Sharma, DIG, Burdwan range, said the explosives appear to be IEDs, “but we are getting expert opinion”.