WANNI: TROOPS continued their daily search and clear operations in the general areas of VISUAMADU, OLUMADU, AMPAKAMAM, VELLAMULLIVAIKKAL, SARVARTHODDAM, AMPALAWANPOKKANAI, PUTHUKKUDIYIRUPPU south, CHINNADAMPNKULAM and ERATHANKOTHTHAKULAM throughout Monday (15).
A search in PUTHUKKUDIYIRUPPU south found two thermo baric weapons that had been brought to WANNI area by Tiger terrorists, irrespective of the fact that this weapon has been banned for use in consistent with GENEVA conventions. Other findings during the day included;
One hundred and fifty T-56 weapons, three thousand three hundred and sixty rounds of T-56 ammunition, three hundred 81 mm mortar bombs, forty-three hand grenades, seventeen Rocket Propelled Grenades (RPG), twenty-two anti personnel mines, thirteen luminous jackets, one self loading rifle (SLR), two Improvised Explosive Devices (IED), made using 81 mm mortars, nineteen Arul bombs, one thousand and one hundred rounds of Multi Purpose Machine Gun (MPMG) ammunition, one hundred anti personnel fuses, fourteen claymore mines weighing about 1 kg each, thirty 60 mm mortar bombs, nine 82 mm mortar bombs, two Bangalore torpedoes, seventeen booby trap fuses, one 120 mm mortar bomb, two 130 mm artillery rounds, one thousand four hundred and twenty-one rounds of 12.7 mm ammunition, seventy-nine 122 mm artillery rounds, one 40 mm grenade cartridge, one 81 mm mortar barrel, nine MPMG links, one 60 mm mortar barrel, one 60 mm bipod, two pouches, two 8 HP Outboard Motors (OBM), one 9.9 HP OBM, forty-three electric detonators, four 81 mm Para bombs, five hundred 81 mm mortar cartridges and one helmet.
