The Rapid Action Battalion has unearthed another large weapons cache at Habiganj’s Satchharhi reserve forest.
Published : 02 Sep 2014, 09:11 AM
The elite police unit said small weapons and ammunition were found in a container buried underground in the jungle at Habiganj’s Chunarughat.
RAB’s Media Wing Director Mufti Mahmud Khan briefed the press about the haul at Srimangal RAB-9 camp where the arms were displayed on Tuesday noon.
Nine Sub Machine Guns (SMG), one Medium Machine Gun (MMG), one Beta Gun, one 7.62 bore auto rifle, six Self Loading Rifles (SLR), one Sniper Telescope Sight and 2,400 rounds of ammunition – were recovered, he said.
The weapons were discovered during a RAB operation in the area from Aug 29, said Mufti.
On Jun 3, RAB found a large amount of weapons stored in bunkers dug deep in hillocks inside the forest, barely three kilometers from the border with India's Tripura state.
Members of the elite force had searched the forest for several days in June and found rocket launchers, four machine-guns, a rifle, five machine gun barrels, 222 anti-tank weapons with 248 charges, 19 machine gun drum chains, 19 magazines, 12,987 bullets of various kinds and weapon lubricants.
The recovery at Satchharhi in June was perhaps the single biggest case of arms seizure since the 2004 Chittagong arms case.
RAB then said the hardware in the Satchharhi hills were similar to those from the 10-trucks haul and to an earlier arms recovery at Bogra in 2003.
A Chittagong Court in Jan 30 sentenced 14 to death for attempting to smuggle the 10 trucks of weapon after it was proven that they were brought in for Assamese separatist group United Liberal Front of Asom (ULFA).