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Srinagar, July 30 : The Army and Jammu and Kashmir police have
unearthed a number of hideouts and recovered war-like stores in the
Kashmir valley during the past 24 hours.
A defence ministry spokesman said 126 Territorial Army (TA)
battalion launched a search operation at village Shutiyan near
Gagangir, Sonamarg, about 85 from here on the strategically
important 434-km-long Srinagar-Leh national highway last evening.
There was a specific information that militants have for the
first time stored arms and ammunition in the area, he said adding
security forces, after a long search, finally smashed the hideout.
He said arms and ammunition recovered included four hand
grenades, one UBGL grenade, seven AK magazines, two sticks of
plastic explosives, two electric detonators, three radio sets, five
antennas, one binoculars, about 160 rounds of ammunition and some
clothing and food items.
However, no one was arrested during the operation, he said.
The arms and ammunition was to target security forc convoys and
Amarnath pilgrims going to Baltal base camp.
A police spokesman of the Kashmir zone said troops of Jammu
and Kashmir police and 21 Rashtriya Rifles (RR) recovered war
like stores from the hideout of Pakistan based Lashker-e-Toiba (LeT)
in north Kashmir.
He said RR and police launched a joint operation in Rajwar
forest following a tip off that militants have stored arms and
ammunition in a specially built hideout.
After a long search for several hours, security forces finally
unearthed the hideout in the dense forest at Nichhama in the
frontier district of Kupwara.
Later, 20 RPG shells, 29 green shells, 19 RPG boosters, 22 UBGL
grenades, one box of ammunition containing 740 rounds and other
incriminating documents were recovered from the hideout belonging to
LeT.
He said the green shells were being used for making quick and
reliable IED. |
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