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RAB finds huge weapons cache in Satchharhi :This is where the headquarters of the now weakened All Tripura Tiger Force was located
TIWN / bdnews24.com
RAB finds huge weapons cache in Satchharhi  :This is where the headquarters of the now weakened All Tripura Tiger Force was located
PHOTO : bdnews24.com

DHAKA, September 2 (TIWN /bdnews24):The Rapid Action Battalion has unearthed another large weapons silo at Sylhet’s Satchharhi reserve forest.Many Light Machine Guns (LMG), Sub Machine Guns (SMG) and Self Loading Rifles (SLR) and a large amount of ammunition were found, RAB Additional Director General Col Ziaul Ahsan said on Tuesday morning. RAB-9 was continuing operations in the Satchharhi forest in Habiganj’s Chunarughat Upazila, he said.

RAB had found large cache of weapons stored in bunkers dug deep in hillocks inside the forest on Jun 3, barely 3 kms from the border with India's Tripura state.   

Members of the elite police unit had searched the forest for days to find various forms of combat weapons including - rocket launchers, four machineguns, a rifle, five machinegun barrels, 222 anti-tank weapons with 248 charges, 19 machinegun drum chains, 19 magazines, 12,987 bullets of various kinds and weapons lubricant. 

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).

A RAB-9 press briefing at Srimangal camp on Tuesday noon said nine Sub Machine Guns (SMG), 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 among the cache recovered in the Satchharhi jungles in Habiganj’s Chunarughat Upazila.

RAB-9 video : Courtsey bdnews24.com

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