Arms, ammunitions recovered in Manipur

Imphal, Mar 21   Manipur Police and security personnel seized arms and ammunition in separate operations on Wednesday.
Suspected Kuki militants had attacked sand miners and drivers and burnt vehicles at Imphal East on March 17 last.
The combined team of security personnel managed to reach the area on Wednesday and recovered the vehicles.
War like stores including one pompi or country made launcher (6 feet), one pompi or country made launcher (3 feet), two Radio sets, seven country made launcher live bombs, nine AK 47 rifle live ammunitions, seven SLR fired cases, 21 pieces. 303 fired cases and one fired case of country made launcher were recovered.
The team also managed to seize a large cache of arms and ammunition from Songphil-Laikhong ridges and its adjacent places.
The arms and ammunition were seized during an operation executed in three phases.
Further the combined team continued the search operation at Nungmanbi/Pheija village located between Keithelmanbi and Laikhong Village, Kangpokpi District.
In that, the combined team recovered and seized another cache of arms, ammunition and explosives.
The seized items were one 5.56 mm INSAS Rifle, one 303 Rifle with magazine, one 9 mm pistol (country made) with magazine, 38 (thirty eight) nos of 303 rifle live ammunitions,18 nos of 12 bore live ammunitions, one INSAS Rifle magazine, one INSAS LMG magazine, 2 hand grenades, 28 nos.of .303 rifle live ammunitions (blank ), 59 nos of 303 rifle empty case ammunitions, 6 nos of 12 bore empty case ammunitions, three nos.of Kenwood wireless sets, seven) nos of tear smoke shells (LR), four nos of tear smoke soft nose, one stun shell, 18 nos of 7.62 SLR empty case ammunitions, one mortar fin, (xviii) one AK 47 Rifle magazine (broken) and two nos.of 161 MK-III, MK-I fuse caps.
The recovered items have been handed over to Maphao dam PS for further legal procedures.