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Thursday, July 1, 1999
25 held, arms seized in Leh
PRESS TRUST OF INDIA
JAMMU, JUNE 30: Police have arrested 25 subversives and recovered a huge arsenal of weapons in Turtuk and Achina Thung areas of Leh district in the frontier region of Ladakh in the last fortnight, said officials.Police conducted raids in Turtuk and Achina Thung and arrested the 25 militants who had been sent with weapons from across the border, a senior police officer said today. On interrogation, they revealed that they had been sent into Ladakh by Pakistan's ISI to set off bombs and kill political leaders and VIPs, as well as innocent people, the police officer said.Weapons recovered from them included 11 AK rifles, one Pika machine gun, one rocket launcher with three rockets, one sniper rifle, four pistols, 3000 rounds of ammunition, 15 grenades, seven kgs of explosives and 107 gelatin sticks. Copyright © 1999 Indian Express Newspapers (Bombay) Ltd.

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