MULLAITTIVU: TROOPS engaged in search and clear operations in the general areas of VISUAMADUKULAM, KILINOCHCHI, PUTHUKKUDIYIRUPPU west, UDAYARKATTU, ALANKULAM and AMPAKAMAM continued to collect more and more LTTE arms and ammunition throughout the day.
Three T-81 weapons, two T-56 weapons, one sniper weapon, sixty 60 mm mortar bombs, three Rocket Propelled Grenades (RPG), 16kg of C-4 explosives, fifty-four hand grenades, sixty-seven training hand grenades, two thousand five hundred and thirty anti personnel mines of P-4 mark 01 and four other anti personnel mines, one 2.5kg claymore mine, thirty-seven 1.5kg claymore mines, eight 81mm mortar bombs, one Arul bomb, twenty-two rounds of pistol ammunition, one 12.7 mm weapon tripod, five hundred and ten unidentified mortar fuses, two hundred and forty rounds of T-56 ammunition and one Light Machine Gun (LMG) drum, fifty-seven handcuffs, eighty-six large tractor tyres, one 1.5 kv generator, one motor cycle, one Latex double door bus, eight empty fuel tanks, twenty-eight gas cylinders, five iron ball barrels and fifteen barbed wire rolls were collected by the troops in those respective areas during Monday (4).