NORTH: TROOPS during their search and clear operations in the general areas of THARAKANKUDI, MADHU, MULLAITTIVU, THANNIMURIPPUKULAM, VELLAMULLIVAIKKAL and THONIVELI recovered fifteen claymore mines, twelve hand grenades, one booby trap made from 81 mm mortar bomb, one Bangalore torpedo, nine hundred and seventy-three rounds of T-56 ammunition, seven anti personnel mines, five 60 mm mortar bombs, two trip flares, two 40 mm mortar bombs, six Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs), twenty Multi Purpose Machine Gun (MPMG) links, three thousand rounds of MPMG ammunition and one hundred and thirty-seven rounds of .50 ammunition on Thursday (26).
