WANNI & EAST: ONE more massive stock of LTTE weaponry and explosives was collected by the troops during search and clear operations conducted in the general areas of PULLIYANPOKKANAI, MURUSUMODDAI, PUTHUKKUDIYIRUPPU, PUTHUKKUDIYIRUPPU east, THANDIKULAM, VISUAMADU, IRANAMADU, MANKULAM, AMPAKAMAM, ALANKULAM and OLUMADU on Tuesday (30).
One Rocket Propelled Grenade (RPG) weapon, two RPG tripods, forty RPG bombs, thirteen RPG rounds, ten RPG chargers, eight claymore mines, twelve rounds of 12.7 mm ammunition, 55 kg of TNT explosives, 15 kg of C-4 explosives, ten thousand and eight hundred rounds of A 85 /92 ammunition, 15 ft of detonator code, one bowzer without its engine, forty one hand grenades, four anti tank mines, one smoke bomb, two thousand two hundred and thirty three rounds of T-56 ammunition, two thousand one hundred and forty seven rounds of Multi Purpose Machine Gun (MPMG) ammunition, eight MPMG links, three MPMG links, two hundred and ninety three silver colour bracelets, one 9 mm pistol, one pistol holder with belt, three pistol magazines, one I-com radio set, fifty T-56 weapons, one suicide jacket, one CDMA phone, eighty seven anti personnel mines, nine 81 mm mortar bombs, four 81mm mortar fuses, one weapon, similar to aircraft gun, one Light Machine Gun drum, one T-81 magazine, two helmets, thirty six 60mm mortar bombs, fifty 60mm HE mortar bombs, one 60mm mortar illumination bomb, eighteen 81mm mortar bombs, two shotguns with two barrels, one sniper gun, two 120mm trappings, four Arul bombs, two 130mm artillery rounds, three YAESU small size radio sets, two base stations, one binocular, four Improvised Explosive Devices, seven trip flares, one hundred and nineteen LTTE files, four camera tripods, one hundred and eight video cassettes, seventeen Sony 184 video cassettes, twenty-two video tapes, sixteen LTTE books, four torpedoes of 26 ft with two launchers, one 130mm artillery gun barrel, one 130mm artillery gun, one Silva compass and ten detonators were in the stock.
In the meantime, troops operating in KUNJALKULAM area in BATTICALOA recovered one claymore mine of 5 kg, one hundred and forty rounds of 12.7 x 108 mm ammunition, twenty electric detonators and one 30 ft detonator code on Tuesday (01).
The same day, troops found one gun carrier from a location, close to the TRACTOR junction area.
