Manipur : Huge cache of arms and ammunition recovered
Imphal (Manipur), May 22 (IBNS) : The troops of Assam Rifles have recovered a huge cache of arms, ammunition and explosives in Manipur’s Ukhrul district, which were smuggled from neighbouring Myanmar into India.
According to the reports, based on intelligence inputs, the troops of 6 Assam Rifles and 27 Assam Rifles under the HQ IGAR (South) launched an operation to make the huge recovery,.
An official of Assam Rifles said that, the consignment of the weapons and ammunitions which included two GSG-5 German rifles with four magazines, one Uzkon semi automatic shot gun with three magazines, two 9 mm Beretta pistols with four magazines, one 9 mm Sigsauer pistol with two magazines, cordtex, detonators and more than 6000 rounds of ammunition of various kinds was being transported from Ukhrul to Imphal.
The recovered arms, ammunition and explosives were smuggled from Myanmar by suspected militants.
More than 17 militant groups, including Kangleipak Communist Party (KCP), Manipur People’s Liberation Front (MPLF), People’s Revolutionary Party of Kangleipak (PREPAK), People’s Liberation Army (PLA) and United National Liberation Front (UNLF), are active in Manipur. Most of these groups have taken shelter in Myanmar.
(Reporting by Hemanta Kumar Nath)
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