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Jammu and Kashmir: Grenades with Chinese markings, weapons drugs recovered from vehicle in Kupwara

| @indiablooms | Jul 28, 2020, at 06:04 pm

Srinagar: During an operation, the Indian Army and the police have recovered a huge cache of  weapons, which include six grenades with Chinese markings, and drugs from a vehicle at a joint check post in Jammu and Kashmir's Kupwara district.

Sources told ANI that teams of 7 Rashtriya Rifles and the Kupwara police had stopped a vehicle for checking at Sadna Top, which was being driven by Umar Sheikh, a resident of Hajinagar.

While searching the vehicle, the security forces found one AK-56 rifle with two magazines, two pistols along with four magazines, 76 rounds of rifle ammunition and 90 rounds of pistol ammo.

Six grenades with Chinese markings, six blue-plastic grenades, and eight OG plastic grenades were also recovered along with approximately 10 kilogram of packets containing narcotics, the sources added. 

An investigation into the matter is currently underway.

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