The Indian Army’s Romeo Force seized a huge cache of weapons and explosives in the Jhullas area of Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district, officials said on Saturday.
According to the Army officials, a search was launched based on a tip-off and the weapons and explosives were recovered from a suspected terrorist bag. The officials said that the recovered items included AK 47 and Pistol rounds of Pakistorigin and sophisticated explosives like RCIED, Timed destruction IED, Stove IED, explosives for IED and Chinese Grenades.
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