Jammu: The army yesterday busted a guerrilla hideout in Kishtwar district of Jammu and Kashmir and seized a large cache of arms and ammunition, a defence spokesman said.
“At 2.30pm today (Sunday), troops of 8 Rashtriya Rifles and 9 Sector Rashtriya Rifles busted a militant hideout in Keshwan village of Kishtwar district,” Colonel Manish Mehta said in Jammu.
A large cache of arms and ammunition was seized from the hideout. The weapons included an AK-47 rifle, two pistols, a rifle, three .12 bore rifles, 60 kg RDX, one kg explosive with Russian markings, 40 detonators, three rocket propelled grenades, 43 hand grenades, 19 under-barrel gun ammunition, 608 rounds of AK-series ammunition, 940 rounds of 7.62 mm ammunition, 13 AK-series magazines and a radio set.
Meanwhile, a gunfight was on yesterday evening between guerrillas of the Lashkar-e-Taiba and security forces in Sopore town of Jammu and Kashmir’s Baramulla district, police said.
“Following specific intelligence inputs about the presence of a group of militants in Krankshavan colony of Sopore, security forces comprising local police, Rashtriya Rifles and Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) troopers surrounded the area in the evening but came under fire,” a senior police officer said here.
IANS
