NORTH & EAST: ARMY troops on Wednesday (29) recovered one micro pistol, two T-56 weapons , one FNC weapon, one 120 mm mortar bomb, eighteen 60 mm mortar bombs, one booby trap made using an 81 mm mortar bomb, four hundred rounds of Multi Purpose Machine Gun (MPMG) ammunition, three Rocket Propelled Grenades (RPG), a stock of T-56 and T-81 spares, thirty-two T-56 magazines, eighty-five rounds of 12.7 mm ammunition, one 9 mm pistol magazine, one radio set, two hand mikes, 500 g of C-4 explosives, one Global Positioning System (GPS), one battery charger, nine shotgun cartridges, eight MPMG tripods, eleven pressure mines, five thousand rounds of T-56 ammunition and sixty hand grenades from MURUSAMUDE, KARUPPUMUDE and PUTHUKUDIYIRUPPU areas during search and clear operations conducted by the troops.
Meanwhile, troops in the east recovered five hand grenades during a search operation conducted in UPPUVELI area, TRINCOMALEE on the same day (29).
