Warlike stores recovered by BSF in Kashmir

Srinagar, Mar 10 (UNI) Border Security Force (BSF) today busted two underground hideouts and recovered warlike stores in the Kashmir valley.

A BSF spokesman said troops of 145 BSF battalion with state police launched a joint operation at village Karwa in the central Kashmir district of Badgam following a tipoff that militants had stored a huge cache of arms and ammunition there.

He said after a long search of the area, troops finally smashed the hideouts.

The arms and ammunition recovered included one rocket launcher with two shells, one booster, three Chinese grenades, seven magazines, one pistol silencer, one wireless set, one kg RDX, one IED charger, one Russian Binocular and more than 5000 rounds of ammunition.

In another similar successful operation troops of 55 BSF battalion unearthed a hideout in an abandoned house at Hathishah Sopore, in north Kashmir.

A large cache of arms and ammunition including one AK rifle, six magzines, 120 rounds of ammunition, one pistol, two grenades and two UBGL grenades were recovered. However, no one was arrested.

UNI