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Forty Three More Claymores Found

NORTH: ARMY TROOPS during their search and clear operations in the general areas of KILINOCHCHI, PUTHUKKUDIYIRUPPU and KAPPUKULAM recovered forty-three claymore mines, four pressure mines, four anti tank mines, four disposable Rocket Propelled Grenade (RPG) launchers, two Improvised Explosive Devices (IED) made using 120 mm mortars, three  IEDs made of artillery shells, fifteen C-4 explosive chargers, sixty-two anti personnel mines, fourteen 60 mm mortar bombs, two IEDs made out of 81 mm mortar, seven Bangalore torpedoes, one hundred  and fifty-one 81 mm mortar bombs, fifty-five RPGs, six hundred Multi Purpose Machine Gun (MPMG) ammunition, six 120 mm mortar bombs and one 82 mm mortar bomb on Tuesday (06). 

Meanwhile, one hand grenade was recovered by the troops from KALMUNEIVELI area in BATTICALOA on the same day (06).