The airport police bomb squad also responded and confiscated the explosives.

Weapons and ammunition belonging to the rebel squatters are confiscated.

But in a cruel irony, more than 20 people in the village reported that their farmland had been confiscated for the projects.

After administrators told teachers they were “off the hook” for financial responsibility for confiscated devices, it helped relieve “lots of anxiety,” she said.

However, a court ruled the government did not have a warrant to confiscate the items and a law prohibiting their sale was only passed later, making the seizure unlawful.