Indian Army’s Romeo force seized a huge cache of weapons and explosives in the Jhullas area of Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch district during a search operation, officials said on Saturday.
The search operation was launched based on a specific intelligence input and the weapons and high-intensity explosives were recovered from a bag suspected to belong to terrorists.
Officials said that weapons included an AK-47 and pistol rounds of Pakistanin origin with several rounds of ammunition and some sophisticated explosive devices such as RCIED, time-destruction IED, stove IED, explosives for IED, and Chinese-origin grenades.
The Army, in a statement, said that “On October 5, based on reliable input, a major search operation was launched by the Romeo Force of the Indian Army in the Jhulas area, where during a search a suspected terrorist bag with a huge amount of cache like AK 47 and pistol rounds of Pakistani origin and
sophisticated explosives like RCIED, timed destruction IED, stove IED, explosives for IED, and Chinese Grenades were found.”
According to the statement all items were in functional and ready-to-use condition.
“Considering smooth elections and upcoming poll results, this is a major success by the Indian Army denying."
Any possibility to disturb the security grid in Jammu and Kashmir had been thwarted, the statement added.
Combing operations was still underway in the area.
Earlier, an area domination patrol by police and army on Ring Road Gharota in Jammu found suspicious explosives. Later on, the bomb disposal squad disposed of the explosives, averting a major tragedy.
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