Police seize detonators

UJUNGPANDANG, South Sulawesi: Police have seized 2,000 detonators smuggled from India which were intended for fish bombing.

The alleged smuggler, identified only as Bah, had been arrested here June 21 while disembarking a ferry from Tarakan, East Kalimantan, city detective chief Second Lieutenant Rachmad Sudjana said yesterday.

He had carried the detonators in a large can which he had he said contained biscuits, Rachmad said.

The detonators had been destined for Bone, about 250 kilometers north of here.

Environmentalists have singled out fish bombing as the most destructive fishing method. They say bombing caused the widespread destruction of coral reefs in Sulawesi waters. (37)