Huge cache of arms recovered during FC raid in Balochistan

QUETTA: Frontier Corps raided on Saturday the hideouts of terrorists in Kohlu, Balochistan and recovered a huge cache of arms and ammunition.

The force conducted a search operation against the defunct Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) militants in the Kodan area of the district and destroyed their hideouts.



The terrorists were planning to use the ammunition in attacks on security forces and other acts of terrorism.

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The arms that were recovered included 59 RPG-7 rockets, 55 mortar rounds of 82 millimeter, 68 rounds of 60-mm, 52 rounds of 82-mm fuzes, 133 rounds of 12.77-mm gun, five anti-tank mines, three anti-personnel mines, one M-72 missile along with the barrel, 49 bombs, 190 RR missile fuzes of 107-mm, two boxes of times mines, two guns, thousands of other fuzes and other explosive material.

Earlier on April 9, 34 separatist militants responsible for last year’s massacre of 23 Pashtuns were killed in a major intelligence-driven raid in a volatile district of the province.

In May 2015, gunmen flagged down two Karachi-bound passenger buses in the unfrequented Gidrang area of Mastung, forced off 23 ethnic Pashtun passengers and killed them execution-style.