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Hideout busted, arms seized

Srinagar Nov. 16. A Special Operations Group of local police today recovered a huge cache of arms and ammunition, including 100 kg of RDX, from a militant hideout in the Anchar area which the counter-insurgency force claimed was meant for killing VVIPS after the elections.

A SoG team raided the hideout and recovered 100 kg RDX, five IEDS, 49 IED circuits and a Chinese pistol with a silencer, the SSP Srinagar, R.R. Suhay, told reporters here this evening. But no arrests have been effected yet.

Mr. Suhay said the cache of arms and ammunition including ready-to-use landmines suggested that militants were going to launch large-scale explosions across Srinagar city.

The group behind the planned attacks had been identified and efforts are on to nab the culprits. The house-owner is however absconding.

The other seizures included a wireless set, 1510 live rounds of AK-47 assault rifle, two AK-47 magazines and four Chinese grenades, he said.

PTI

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