War like stores recovered in north Kashmir by army

Srinagar, June 21 (UNI) Troops of Rashtriya Rifles (RR) busted a specially built hideout in north Kashmir and recovered a large cache of arms and ammunition. A defence ministry spokesman said here today.

He said based on a tip-off, RR troops launched a massive operation in Kalaroos in the frontier district of Kupwara yesterday.

The Spokesman said that after a long search in the woods, troops finally unearthed a six-feet by four-feet underground hide out built close to a nallah bed.

He said in the search a large cache of arms and ammunition, including one Sniper rifle, three AK-47 rifles, two AK-56 rifles, one 9 mm pistol and two single barrel rifles were recovered.

Other ammunition and explosives recovered included a 107 mm shell, three 60 mm mortar bomb, two under barrel grenade launchers, five rocket propelled grenade rounds, five rocket propelled grenade boosters, twelve hand grenades, twelve kgs IED, two RCDs, six pencil IEDs, twenty electric detonators (No 33), thirty five electric detonators (No 27), one radio set ICOM, eight hundred AK 47 rounds of twenty sniper rounds, five rounds of 9 mm ball pistol, fifteen rounds of 40 mm mortar, two binoculars, one 82mm mortar sight, one sniper sight, five magazines for sniper rifles, one magazine of 9mm pistol and ten magazines of AK rifles.

Desciribing it a major success, he said the arms and ammunition were to be used in the north Kashmir against security forces and other vital installations.

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