Another haul of arms, explosives in Satchhari
For the fourth time in three months, Rapid Action Battalion members recovered a cache of firearms and explosives at the Satchhari National Park in Habiganj's Chunarughat upazila early yesterday.
There were 14 sacks of explosives, 112 rocket launchers and 48 chargers of rocket launchers among the weapons, said Mufti Mahmud Khan, director of legal and media wing of Rab.
Around 5:00am, during the drive to recover arms in the forest, members of Rab-9 found the arms and ammunition in a trench inside Ajit Barman's goat-shed at Tripura Palli in the forest, said Mahmud while addressing a press conference at the spot.
The reserve forest is about three kilometres away from the Indian state of Tripura.
The Rab team is yet to confirm the owners of the firearms and ammunition.
The team began its operation to recover firearms on June 3 this year.
On September 2, Rab members recovered two light machine guns, one sub-machine gun, six self-loading rifles, one automatic rifle, one sniper telescope, five rifles and 2,400 bullets of 7.62mm bore from the forest.
The elite force recovered 633 7.62 mm bullets, 54 12.54 mm bullets and a 37-inch long barrel of a machine gun from the forest on June 9.
On June 3, the force got 184 rocket shells (40mm) and 153 chargers abandoned in a bunker at a hillock of the reserve forest.
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