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Published on September 18, 2014
The elite force found 14 sacks of explosives, 112 rocket launchers and 48 chargers of rocket launchers in a trench inside goat-shed at Tripura Palli in the forest.
The raid appeared as the fourth one in a span of three months in the forest which is only three kilometers away from the Indian state of Tripura.
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.
Photo: The Daily Star
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