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LTTE Night Vision Devices &;amp; 97 Anti Personnel Mines Among Day's Recoveries

WANNI: TROOPS continuing their service for the country conducted more and more search and clear operations and found many more LTTE weapons explosives and items from different areas in the WANNI. 

Two night vision devices, two T-56 magazines, ninety rounds of T-56 ammunition, one hand grenade and three hundred water purification tablets were among the recoveries made from the general area of ASIKULAM in VAVUNIYA on Tuesday (7).

Meanwhile, two booby traps, two hundred T-56 ammunition, twenty-seven hand grenades, one pack, thirteen 81mm mortars, one 60mm mortar, four claymore mines and four land mines were collected from VISUAMADU area in KILINOCHCHI during Tuesday (7).
 
Troops in   MULLAITTIVU, PUTHUKUDIYIRUPPU East and PUTHUKUDIYIRUPPU West meanwhile on Tuesday (7) recovered one micro pistol, one micro pistol magazine, one 9mm browning pistol, ninety seven anti personnel mines, twenty remote control devices, seven shotgun cartridges, three shotguns, thirty-two booby traps, eighty-six 12.7 mm ammunition, twenty-three Rocket Propelled Grenades (RPGs), four Bangalore torpedoes, three hundred Multi Purpose Machine Gun (MPMG) ammunition, one 7 mm detonator cord, one anti tank mine, one bar mine, four 81 mm HE mortars, fifty-two 60 mm mortar rounds, two flack jackets, two helmets, 20 kg of explosives, fifteen 130mm artillery shells, four Baba mortars, two T 56 weapons, one T-81 weapon, one hundred and ninety-five T-56 ammunition, thirty-two T-56 magazines,  thirteen claymore mines, sixty detonators, one cyanide capsule, nine hand grenades and one Improvised Explosive Device.