SRINAGAR : Army has busted a militant hideout and recovered a huge cache of arms and ammunition, including anti-tank and anti-personal mines, from Kupwara district of north Kashmir.
“Continued area domination operations by troops of the frontline division in Kupwara resulted in unearthing a huge cache of arms and ammunition yesterday,” a defence spokesman said today.
He said the recoveries included two anti tank mines, 55 anti personal mines, ten hand grenades, eight flame thrower tubes, eight RPG rounds, two 105mm artillery shells, 100 detonators, 1500 rounds of AK ammunition and 35 kgs of RDX explosive packed in 75 plastic containers.
“The cache was carefully concealed behind boulders and in the thick jungles on the upper reaches of the Shamsabari towards the Line of Control,” he said.
“This is a major recovery and thwarts the nefarious designs of the terrorists to disturb the fragile peace in the Kashmir Valley,” he said.
A senior army officer, Brigadier Ram Niwas said “the cache could have been used by the terrorists for violent activities in the region particularly with the Amarnath Yatra beginning tomorrow.” (AGENCIES)
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