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Sri Lanka Army

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More Weapons &;amp; Explosives Emerge from Mullaittivu Areas

MULLAITTIVU: TROOPS of the 53 Division conducting search and clear operations in the general area of VELLAMULLIVAIKKAL found one T-56 weapon, four DF monitoring sets, six radio direction finder, three IC-R 100 communication receivers, two Kenwood AT-50 automatic tuners, four hand-held radio sets, four AC adaptors, two antenna simulators, three serial data expanders, ten wireless data units, nine power distribution units, twelve antenna switches, one display unit, seven circuit boards, eight spring bases ant mounts, two antenna parts, one charger, seven antennas, forty seven cable reels of data connectors and power cords on Sunday (31).

Similarly, 57 and 58 Division troops during search and clear operations in PUTHUKKUDIYIRIPPU, PUDUMATTALAN and VELLAMULLIVAIKKAL areas the same day recovered twenty-two T-56 weapons, two pistols, one T-81 weapon, one gas gun, two pistol magazines sixty reels of detonator codes, twenty 81mm mortar barrels, one 120 mm mortar barrel, one 120 mm mortar barrel mount, fifty-two rounds of 12.7 mm ammunition, forty-one 60 mm mortar bombs, two 81 mm mortar sights, sixty-eight hand grenades, one hundred thousand (100,000) electric detonators, eleven 40 mm bombs,  two 40 mm grenade launchers, nine 9 mm ammunition, two Light Machine Guns (LMG), two Multi Purpose Machine Guns (MPMG) and eight Rocket Propelled Guns (RPGs).