Police on Thursday confiscated a cache of firecrackers worth Rs200, 000 that were being sneaked into Nepal through various customs points of Mahottari district on Thursday.

Jalsagar-based Border Security Office Armed Police Force SP Prakash Shrestha said that the firecrackers were smuggled with an intention to sell them during the festive season. The firecrackers of Nagin and Cobra brand were seized from places like Matihani, Maliwara, Singhasani of Sundarpur VDC among others.

Jalsagar Border Security Office buried the confiscated firecrackers under the ground in presence of media persons.