Large amount of weapons and explosives recovered in Sonitpur
Tezpur: Sonitpur police recovered a large quantity of weapons from Misamamari Belshiri in an operation conducted base on intelligence information of the Army Field Battalion.
Additional Superintendent of Police Madhurima Das told reporters in Tezpur that the weapons were recovered from an underground trunk in an operation led by her.
Additional Superintendent of Police Das said there are also weapons and explosives.
Among the items recovered were live ammunition of Pakistani-made LMGs used in ambushes by al-Qaeda and Pakistani militants.
She said these areas bordering Assam and Arunachal Pradesh are densely forested and were earlier strongholds of NDFB militants. They were wrapped in plastic and buried in a trunk.
The recovered items include 6 handmade pistols, 1 Hand made gun, AK 47 rifle magazine 1, factory made pistol 1, 2 active grenades, 15 live ammunition of .22 pistol ,110 ammunition of AK47 rifle and 58 live ammunition of SLR(7.62M) in Pakistan factory (POF). ) 32 live rounds of LMG, 2 pen pistols, 4 packets of white explosives, 22kg phosphorus (Phosperous), 1.5 kg unidentified explosives, 1.5 kg black explosive powder ,4 detonators.
The exploitative material will send to forensic science laboratory for examination , she said .
