Jammu: The Jammu and Kashmir state police and army troops in a joint operation unearthed a large cache of arms and ammunition from a location close to the Line of Control (LoC) with Pakistan in Poonch district on Saturday evening.
A defence spokesman in Jammu said the cache was a "war-like store".
"Based on specific intelligence inputs about cache, a joint search operation was launched by the army and Jammu and Kashmir Police in Sabra Nala of Mendhar, Poonch district , Saturday afternoon," the spokesman said. The area is 230 km northwest of Jammu.
By evening, security forces recovered a war-like store from a hideout. ...
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