Jammu and Kashmir: Army unearths ammo cache
The Army further said that trained sniffer dogs and metal detectors were also used in the operation.
Srinagar: The Army said on Tuesday that it with Jammu and Kashmir police recovered a cache of weapons and other ‘war-like stores’ during a search operation in Kalakote area of frontier Rajouri district.
The operation, it said, was launched on a tip off that the militants had stored the cache for its future use in Jammu-Reasi-Rajouri belt of the State. The Army’s counterinsurgency Rashtriya Rifles and the local police “diligently developed the intelligence input over a fortnight”, it said adding that after several search operations, the team managed to trace out the cache from Tattapani forests near Kalakote on Tuesday.
The Army further said that trained sniffer dogs and metal detectors were also used in the operation.
“This find has frustrated the plans by terrorists to use these weapons for a deadly strike,” it claimed. The cache, defence spokesman Colonel N.N. Joshi said, includes one sniper rifle with Chinese telescopic sight, one each AK-47 rifle and AK-74 rifle, 7.62 mm pistol, Mauser Chinese pistol (Mauser), .32 revolver, four hand held radio sets and around 150 rounds of ammunition.