FORT BENNING - Officials at Fort Benning blew up about 275 pounds of missing explosives discovered on the grounds of the Army post. <br>
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Assistant Chief of Police Wesley Mott says it was safer to detonate the sticks of explosives - which were reported missing last week from a Columbus paving company - than to move them. <br>
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Acting on an anonymous tip, law enforcement officials recovered the ammonium nitrate sticks - which were taken from the Robinson Paving Company - in a wooded area on the grounds of Fort Benning near the Tenth Armored Division Road and Chattsworth Road intersection. <br>
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Officials said the site - which is in a kind of buffer zone around the fence that secures the base - is not secure and can be entered easily from a public road. <br>
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Agents from the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms are working with local officials in the investigation.
