A day after a van laden with detonators went missing in Chhattisgarh's restive Bastar region, police said on Monday that the van had been recovered but the detonators were looted by the unidentified people who had hijacked the vehicle.

The Mahindra Max pickup van that had 2,500 detonators went missing Sunday on the way from Mandir Hasod on Raipur's outskirts to an iron-ore mine in Kirandul in Dantewada region.