Huge cache of arms and ammunition recovered in Kashmir

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Kupwara, North Kashmir, Sep 28 (UNI) The troops of Vajr Division smashed two militant hideouts and recovered a huge cache of arms and ammunition, including assault rifles, grenades, bombs and rockets, during the past 24 hours.

A senior army officer Brigadier A K Sen told visiting journalists that troops of Vajr Division, guarding the Line of Control, conducted searchs in the villages near the border in Machil and Karnah sectors after a tip from locals that militants had dumped arms and ammunition there.

He said after several hours of searches, troops finally unearthed the hideouts and recovered war like stores.

The arms and ammunition recovered from these underground hideouts included one Universal Machine Gun with 74 rounds of belted ammunition, six pitols, 71 UBGL grenades, six ak rifles, four wirless sets, 22 hand grenades, two 16 mm mortor bombs, four Rockets, two IEds and more than 1000 rounds of ammunition.

However, no one was arrested as militants had escaped before the raid, he said.

He said militants had stored warlike stores in the close proximity of the LOC so that these could be ferried by bakarwals, conduits and couriers to different parts of the valley for attacking security forces and politicians.

The officer said the recovery of these arms and ammunition was a big success for the security forces and it has dealt a big blow to the nefarious designs of the militants attempting to disrupt the atmosphere of peace and tranquility prevailing in the north Kashmir.

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