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Assam Rifles foils major incident
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, August 06 2019:
Assam Rifles Battalion under the aegis of HQ IGAR (South) successfully foiled an attempt by miscreants (likely UGs) to perpetrate an untoward incident in the run up to Independence Day 2019 by recovering large quantity of explosives.
In the view of the heightened security situation leading to Independence Day 2019, the AR Battalion had deployed a number of troops along the Indo-Myanmar Border to prevent any action by the UGs, said a press release issued by IGAR (S) .
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On the night of August 3, one of the teams detected and prevented the movement of suspected UGs into Indian territory from Myanmar.
The UGs taking advantage of hours of darkness and heavy rains disengaged themselves from the pursuing security forces and fled from the scene.
A deliberate search operation was carried out the next day wherein large cache of war like stores including four Chinese made hand grenades, 21 locally made unmarked hand grenades, one mine, 29 detonators and 12 Kg of gelatin were recovered.
The recovered items have been handed over to police for investigation, it added.
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