WANNI & EAST: TROOPS operating in the general areas of MUNDIMURIPPU, PUTHUKUDDIYIRUPPU and SUGANDIPURAM conducted search and clear operations in those areas on Monday (21) and recovered seventeen T-56 magazines, four links of Light Machine Guns (LMG), eleven T-56 weapons, two hundred and eighty rounds of T-56 ammunition, one T-81 weapon, seventy bombs, eighteen 60mm illuminating para, sixteen 60 mm mortar bombs, five Rocket Propelled Grenades (RPG), one bar mine, twenty-four Rangan 99 type mines, seventy-four hand grenades, forty-one P-4 MK-1 mines, one RPG charger, twelve 60 mm mortar fuses, one motorcycle petrol tank filled with explosives, two I-com sets and three pouches.
Meanwhile, troops in the East conducted search and clear operations the same day (21) and recovered two RPG bombs, two hand grenades, two 40 mm grenades, eighty rounds of Multi Propose Machine Gun (MPMG) ammunition, forty-two rounds of T-56 ammunition, one T-56 magazine and two T-56 weapons from the general areas of PONDUKALCHENAI, IRUKKUWEDDI, KALKUDAH, THIRUKKOVIL and KAPPUKULAM.
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