WANNI: TROOPS operating in the general areas of VISUAMADU, AMPAKAMAM, VELLANKULAM and PUTHUKKUDIYIRUPPU conducted search and clear operations in those areas on Thursday (27) and recovered thirteen hand grenades, fifty-two anti personnel mines, six T-56 weapons, fifty-one rounds of T-56 ammunition, one T-56 magazine, one pouch, 25 kg of C-4 explosives, two pressure mines each weighing about 5 kg, three claymore mines, five electric chargers, seventeen Multi Purpose Machine Gun (MPMG) links, a barrel containing 210 lt of petrol, fourteen Rocket Propelled Grenades (RPG), two radio communication sets, three LTTE maps, three hundred and four personnel files of LTTE cadres and one signal booster.
Meanwhile, the UPPUVELI Police in TRINCOMALEE on information conducted a search in the area and recovered one claymore mine the same day (27).
