NORTH & EAST: ARMY troops engaged in search and clear operations in the general areas of PUTHUKKUDIYIRUPPU, VIYAPARAMULLA and AMPAKAMAM further recovered two hundred detonators, eight Improvised Mortar Launchers (IML), fifteen T-56 weapons, twenty-five Sub Machine Guns (SMG), seven hundred rounds of T-56 ammunition, two micro pistols with one magazine, sixteen 60 mm mortar chargers, sixty 60 mm mortar bombs, four 60 mm illuminating mortar bombs, one claymore mine, two Multi Purpose Machine Gun (MPMG) links, thirty-nine rounds of MPMG ammunition, eighteen hand grenades, a large stock of T-56 weapon parts and two Outboard Motors (OBM) during Sunday (23).
Meanwhile, the Police in the EAST conducted search operations in KONDANKARNI and KURAWANKARNI in WALACHCHANAI area recovered one T-56 weapon, one T-56 magazine, thirty rounds of T-56 ammunition and one hand grenade from those areas, the same day (23).