Tribune News Service,Jammu, January 8

Security forces today recovered a rich haul of arms and ammunition from Reasi district.“Based on specific information received from reliable sources, the Rashtriya Rifles battalion at Samote and police personnel from the Chasana police station recovered a cache of arms and ammunition from a natural hideout in Kuliwala Forest in Chasana tehsil of Reasi district today,” said a Defence spokesperson.The cache included one AK-56 rifle, one 7.63 mm pistol, one 303 rifle, one sniper rifle Dragunov, five magazines of AK-56 rifle, one magazine of pistol, 75 rounds of AK-56 rifle, 55 rounds of Pika, two rounds of pistol, six rounds of sniper rifle, one grenade UBGL, one rotating bolt of AK 56 rifle, 11 fired cases of AK-56 and two fired cases of sniper rifles.The recovery of the cache had prevented any untoward incident in the area and thwarted evil designs of terrorists, he said.