Another arms haul in Naikkhongchhari
8 AK47s, 8 LMGs found at terrorists' den
Our Correspondent, Bandarban
Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) seized a huge cache of arms and ammunition including AK47 rifles and light machine-guns at Naikkhongchhari upazila in Bandarban district on Tuesday night into a week of another haul from the same area. The seized items include eight AK47 rifles and 48 magazines, eight light machine-guns (LMG) and six magazines, and around 4,000 bullets. On information, BDR raided Jaruliachhari hills and found the cache after excavating the earth in two camps abandoned by criminals, said Lt Col Hasinur Rahman, the zone commander of BDR's 40th battalion who led the operations. The camps are within seven kilometres off the Bangladesh-Myanmar border. BDR recovered another cache of seven AK47 rifles with 1,275 bullets, two M16 rifles with 90 bullets, one point 22-bore rifle, two 12-bore shotguns, two automatic rifles, 146 bullets of air rifle, 160 bullets of pistol and one rocket launcher from Tekchhari on November 23. In three raids on October 16, 21, and 22, three AK 47 rifles, 169 heavy machine-gun shells, 2,945 bullets of M16 rifle, 99 bullets of sub machine-gun and 47 bullets of AK47 rifle, 37 high frequency wirelesses sets and nine binoculars were recovered. On December 30 last year, 32 anti-tank mines, seven anti-personal mines, six 40mm rocket launchers, 10 charge rocket launcher cells, one GF bomb, 18 charge GF bombs and 14 ingredients of rocket launchers were recovered from the Lembuchhari Para, a few kilometres from the Bangladesh-Myanmar border.
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