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Sri Lanka Army

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Search Operations Collect more Claymores

WANNI & WEST: ARMY TROOPS on search and clear operations in the general areas of  KILINOCHCHI, VISUAMADU, PUTHUKKUDIYIRUPPU, VELLAMULLIVAIKKAL, AMPAKAMAM, WELIOYA and VADORAMULLA recovered two 81 mm mortar bombs, one anti personnel mine, ten claymore mines each weighing about 1.5 kg, one claymore mine weighing about 5 kg, one claymore mine weighing about 2.5 kg, five 82 mm mortar bombs, fourteen 60 mm mortar bombs, four T-56 weapons, twenty six magazines, four hand grenades, one hundred and thirty anti personnel mine fuses, eighteen electric detonators, one Rocket Propelled Grenade (RPG), one booby trap, two shotguns, one 130 mm mortar shell and one Global Positioning System.
  
Meanwhile, Army troops acting on information received from an informant found two 81 mm mortar bombs hidden in an abandoned well in SAPUGASTENNA in GAMPAHA on Sunday (27).