Srinagar: Ahead of Independence Day, the Border Security Force (BSF) has seized a huge cache of arms and ammunition from the Poonch area in Jammu and Kashmir.
Two Hizbul Mujahideen terrorists also have been arrested from Jammu and Kashmir’s Kishtwar district. The terrorists have been identified as Yasir Hussain and Usman Qadir, and are residents of the Tander Dachhan Tehsil of the district.
The police had learnt from sources that the youth were missing and had joined the terrorist organisation Hizbul Mujahideen ‘with the intention to endanger the integrity/sovereignty of the Country’, following which an FIR was filed.
Further, based on reliable information of their presence in the area, a police party apprehended both the newly joined terrorists from the Kalaingassu area of Tander Dachhan.
A joint operation was launched by the Rashtriya Rifles and Special Operation Group (SOC) in the Poonch forest area where they busted a terror hideout and recovered AK-47 rifles, magazines, pistols, grenades, and other arms and ammunition.
The huge cache included two AK-47 rifles, AK-47 rifle magazines, one Chinese pistol and magazines, four Chinese grenades, detonators, fuse detonators for Chinese grenades, AK-47 ammunition, two mobile phones, and also phone batteries.
The recovery of such a huge cache of arms and ammunition is significant at a time when there is a high alert of threat across the country ahead of Independence Day.
