{"id":3204,"date":"2025-05-02T14:18:37","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T08:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ichelnewsnetwork.com\/?p=3204"},"modified":"2026-01-19T05:18:39","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T05:18:39","slug":"security-forces-recover-large-cache-of-arms-and-ammunition-in-manipur-during-search-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ichelnewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/02\/security-forces-recover-large-cache-of-arms-and-ammunition-in-manipur-during-search-operations\/","title":{"rendered":"Security Forces Recover Large Cache of Arms and Ammunition in Manipur During Search Operations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Imphal, May 2: Security forces continued extensive search operations and area domination activities in the fringe and vulnerable areas across the hill and valley districts of Manipur, leading to the recovery of a significant cache of arms, ammunition, explosives, and other warlike stores.<\/p>\n<p>In a series of coordinated operations, recoveries were made from multiple locations, including Kangpokpi, Imphal East, and Tengnoupal districts, indicating the continued presence of illegal weapon stockpiles in sensitive regions.<\/p>\n<p>In Kangpokpi District, arms and explosives were seized from Lungphou and Maohing villages under Kangpokpi Police Station. The recovered items included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>01 SLR Rifle<\/li>\n<li>01 locally-made .303 Rifle with magazine<\/li>\n<li>01 locally-made Bolt Action Rifle<\/li>\n<li>01 12 Bore Single Barrel Gun<\/li>\n<li>01 Pumpi gun<\/li>\n<li>02 empty magazines of 7.62 mm SLR<\/li>\n<li>10 live rounds of 7.62 mm ammunition<\/li>\n<li>02 live hand grenades without safety pins and chain levers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Further operations in Makhom and adjoining Kangchup Chiru villages under Kangchup Police Station yielded:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>02 SLR Rifles with two magazines<\/li>\n<li>01 INSAS Rifle with one magazine<\/li>\n<li>01 12 Bore Single Barrel Breech Loading (SBBL) gun<\/li>\n<li>01 .22 Rifle<\/li>\n<li>02 Pumpi Guns<\/li>\n<li>01 Long Range Improvised Mortar (Pumpi)<\/li>\n<li>02 No. 36 Hand Grenades<\/li>\n<li>01 Multi Grenade Launcher live ammunition<\/li>\n<li>03 rounds of 12 Bore live ammunition<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In Heingangkhong and nearby areas under Heingang Police Station, Imphal East District, the following items were recovered:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>01 .303 Rifle<\/li>\n<li>01 Sniper Rifle<\/li>\n<li>01 9 mm SMG Carbine with magazine<\/li>\n<li>01 .32 Pistol<\/li>\n<li>02 INSAS Rifle Magazines<\/li>\n<li>01 Lathode Shell<\/li>\n<li>03 No. 36 Hand Grenades (without detonators)<\/li>\n<li>10 rounds of .303 live ammunition<\/li>\n<li>05 rounds of 7.62 mm live ammunition<\/li>\n<li>10 rounds of 5.56&#215;30 mm live ammunition<\/li>\n<li>07 rounds of 5.56 mm live ammunition<\/li>\n<li>08 rounds of 9 mm live ammunition<\/li>\n<li>02 rounds of .32 live ammunition<\/li>\n<li>05 .303 blank cartridges<\/li>\n<li>04 Detonators<\/li>\n<li>03 Anti-Riot Shells<\/li>\n<li>02 Tube Launching devices<\/li>\n<li>02 Helmets<\/li>\n<li>04 Bulletproof plates<\/li>\n<li>01 Rubber bullet<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Meanwhile, a major cache of explosives was uncovered in Saivom village under Tengnoupal Police Station, Tengnoupal District, where security forces seized:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>08 Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs)<\/li>\n<li>08 locally-made Hand Grenades<\/li>\n<li>25 Electric Detonators<\/li>\n<li>05 No. 8 Detonators<\/li>\n<li>40 rounds of 5.56 mm INSAS ammunition<\/li>\n<li>60 rounds of 7.62 mm AK ammunition<\/li>\n<li>01 Motorola communication set with charger<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Additionally, three bunkers were destroyed during the Tengnoupal operation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imphal, May 2: Security forces continued extensive search operations and area domination activities in the fringe and vulnerable areas across the hill and valley districts of Manipur, leading to the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ichelnewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/02\/security-forces-recover-large-cache-of-arms-and-ammunition-in-manipur-during-search-operations\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3205,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_joinchat":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-inn","category-state","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ichelnewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ichelnewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ichelnewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ichelnewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ichelnewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ichelnewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8907,"href":"https:\/\/ichelnewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3204\/revisions\/8907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ichelnewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ichelnewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ichelnewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}