Assam Rifles recovers huge cache of arms and ammunition

Pothashang News Service: Imphal, May 21, 2018: In a major breakthrough 6 Assam Rifles of 9 Sector Assam Rifles and 27 Assam Rifles of 10 Sector Assam Rifles under the aegis of HQ IGAR (South) launched an operation and recovered huge quantities of arms, ammunition and explosives.

The consignment of the weapons and ammunitions which included two GSG-5 German rifles with four magazines, one Uzkon semi automatic shot gun with three magazines, two 9 mm Beretta pistols with four magazines, one 9 mm Sigsauer pistol with two magazines, cordtex, detonators and more than 6000 rounds of ammunition of various kinds was being transported from Ukhrul towards Imphal. This recovery is a major success on part of Assam Rifles to thwart nefarious designs of the UG groups, said a statement released by IGAR (South).