Huge cache of arms and ammunition recovered in Dibrugarh

A cache of grenades and ammunition were recovered from a tea garden in Assam’s Dibrugarh district on Monday.

The police recovered 2 Chinese grenades, two magazines of AK-series rifles, 12 bullets and a pistol silencer were recovered from South Jalan tea estate.

The items were spotted by garden workers on Sunday night, Dibrugarh Superintendent of Police Shwetank Mishra.

We are trying to ascertain to which militant outfit those explosives and ammunition belong. We have interrogated some people but no arrests have been made so far, said Shwetank Mishra.

Assam | Yesterday we received info about the presence of arms & ammunition in a tea garden in South Jalan Nagar, Dibrugarh. Police along with CRPF launched a search operation and recovered two AK magazines, 12 rounds of bullets, 2 bottle grenades & timer device: SP Dibrugarh pic.twitter.com/quLTalp8Uo

— ANI (@ANI) December 26, 2022