‘War-like store’ of
arms seized near LoC in Kashmir
IANS May 13, 2013
Jammu: The Jammu and Kashmir state police and army troops in a joint
operation unearthed a large cache of arms and ammunition from a location close
to the Line of Control (LoC) with Pakistan in Poonch district on
Saturday evening. A defence spokesman in Jammu said the cache was a "war-like
store". "Based on specific intelligence inputs about
cache, a joint search operation was launched by the army and Jammu and Kashmir Police in Sabra Nala of
Mendhar, Poonch district , Saturday afternoon," the spokesman said. The
area is 230 km northwest of Jammu.
The spokesman described the recovery as \"a
major blow to efforts of revival of terrorism in the state. By evening, security forces recovered a war-like store
from a hideout. A large quantity of weapons, ammunition and
magazines were seized, A among them were: two AK 47 rifles with plastic
magazine, one 7mm caliber weapon with magazine, one bolt action rifle, three
7mm pistols with .30 calibre magazine, one 7.65mm pistol with magazine, one
under-barrel grenade launcher (UBGL), five magazines of AK 47, 1019 rounds
ammunition of AK 47, two magazine of .30 calibre pistol, three rounds of .30
calibre pistol, four rounds ammunition of 7.65 calibre pistol, one Arges
grenade, besides six radio sets and two mobile phones. The
spokesman described the recovery as "a major blow to efforts of revival of
terrorism in the state."
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