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Indian Army seizes huge cache of weapons, explosives in Jammu and Kashmir

Srinagar: The Indian Army’s Romeo Force seized a huge cache of weapons and explosives in the Jhullas region of Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district. After getting specific inputs, the Indian Army launched a search operation in the area and the weapons and explosives were recovered from a suspected terrorist bag.

The recovered items included AK 47 and Pistol rounds of Pakistani origin and sophisticated explosives like RCIED, Timed destruction IED, Stove IED, explosives for IED and Chinese Grenades. All items were in functional and ready-to-use condition.

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‘On October 5, based on reliable input, a major search operation was launched by Romeo Force of the Indian Army in the Jhulas area, where during a search a suspected terrorist bag with a huge amount of cache like AK 47 and Pistol rounds of Pakistani origin and sophisticated explosives like RCIED, Timed destruction IED, Stove IED, explosives for IED and Chinese Grenades were found. Considering smooth elections and upcoming poll results this is a major success by the Indian Army denying any possibility to disturb the security grid,’ the Army said in a statement.

Earlier, an area domination patrol by police and army on Ring Road Gharota in Jammu found a suspicious explosive. The suspected explosives were later disposed of by a team of Bomb Disposal Squad. Earlier on Saturday, Security forces had eliminated two terrorists in Kupwara, Jammu and Kashmir, as part of ‘Operation GUGALDHAR.’

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