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Assam police recover huge cache of arms in Kokrajhar

| @indiablooms | Feb 03, 2021, at 11:52 pm

Guwahati/IBNS: Police recovered huge cache of illegal arms, including five AK series rifles, in Assam’s Kokrajhar district on Tuesday night.

On specific information that some miscreants, who are equipped with arms and explosives, are moving in a vehicle at Nasraibil area under Gossaigaon police station, a police team stopped the vehicle bearing registration number AS-16A-4165 at Saraibil area.

During the search, the police team recovered huge cache of illegal weapons which were kept hide in the vehicle.

The police team recovered five AK-56 rifles, eight AK-56 magazines, one HK 33E rifle with magazine, one UBGL, 11 UBGL cells, eight Chinese hand grenades, 300 rounds of live ammunition with BP pouch, five mobile phone handsets, blankets, plastics and other items from the vehicle.

Police also apprehended six persons and they were identified as Snmanjay Basumatary alias Bogla, Rabinath Narzary alias Ganda, Pungka Basumatary alias Langkhu, Mwktang  Basumatary alias Mamo, Manipal Mushahary and Swmkwr Basumatary.


(Reporting and image by Hemanta Kumar Nath)

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