AK47, bullets recovered in Rangamati’s Langadu

Army, police and BGB troopers have recovered a huge cache of arms and ammunitions including AK47 rifles in a joint raid in remote areas of Rangamati’s Langadu upazila on Thursday morning.

Started on Wednesday midnight, the joint operation was still on, said Rangamati police superintendent Syed Tarikul Hasan.

Langadu police OC Mominul Islam said that the joint drive recovered two AK47 assault rifles, one automatic rifle, one Chinese rifle, 152 rounds of bullets, four magazines, five sets of army uniforms, nine backpacks and three mobile phone sets.

Mominul told bdnews24.com that the weapons and bullets were recovered from a hill in the jungle.

Khagrachari army region staff officer Major Mujahidul Islam told bdnews24.com that Langadu zone commander Abdul Alim Chowdhury led the operation.

“The area is just eight kilometres away from Langdu Sadar. Two rifles among the seized weapons were hidden in a lake. Divers are still searching the water,” Mujahidul said.

SP Tarikul Hasan said that the arms were found abandoned and it’s hard to tell who owned the weapons.

In recent months, Indian security forces have also seized weapons headed for Chittagong Hill Tracts from the country's frontier state of Mizoram.

Some ethnic Chakmas in Mizoram were found linked to the seizures.