WANNI: ARMY troops engaged in search and clear operations in the general areas of PUTHUKUDIYIRUPPU, ALANKULAM, ULIYANKULAM, PANDIYANKULAM, KARAYANMULLIVAIKKAL, VELLAMULLIVAIKKAL, KARAYANMULLIVAIKKAL, CHALAI and MUHAMALE recovered twenty-two T-56 weapons, one hundred and thirty nine anti personnel mines, three 81 mm mortar bombs, fifty -one 60 mm mortar bombs, ten thousand and sixty three 7.62 mm ammunitions, twelve Rocket Propelled Grenades (RPG), twenty-eight 73 mm heat rounds, 100 kg of unidentified explosives, 1 kg of C-4 explosives, four Multi Purpose Machine Gun (MPMG), seven hundred and fifty rounds of MPMG ammunition, six hundred and one unidentified rounds of ammunition, four hundred 5.56 round of ammunition, three 81 mm mortar bombs, two 40 mm grenade launchers, one RL bomb, one LTTE suicide boat, sixty-two Rangan 99 type LTTE mines, eight hand grenades, one 400 k type hand grenade, one 60 mm mortar smoke round, thirteen 60 mm mortar fuses, three 303 rifles, three T-81 weapons, one Chinese pistol, one RPG launcher, one shotgun, one locally made gun, three T-56 magazines, three pouches, three life saving jackets, one motorbike jacket, two I-com sets, one Yeasu set, three small water cans, one OG cap, one uniform, 200 m long wire, fifty-eight boat propellers, forty-nine boat engines, one Outboard Motor (OBM), one battery charger, four generators, one welding plant, six fire extinguishers, three boat oil tanks, forty-five detonators, one compressor, twenty-four combat & survivor books, seven books about guns & ammunition, thirty-six books of soldiers on front-line, eighteen books about Global Positioning System (GPS), one unidentified book, three magazine copies of Jane’s Intelligence review, seven books on aviation and two camouflage caps on Tuesday (14).
