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By Haroon Habib
DHAKA, NOV. 27. The Bangladesh Rifles, which was engaged in bloody clashes with armed Myanmar refugees recently, seized a huge cache of arms from the hill district of Bandaban on November 24. The weapons seized were two 60 mm and two 2-inch mortars, three British-made light machine guns (LMG), 49 magazines, 32 self-loading rifle magazines, 11 AK 47assault rifle magazines, and 2,000 British-made LMG cartridges. Sources said the arms and ammunition belonged to Muslim militant groups from the bordering Arakan in Myanmar. On November 23, security forces had seized seven AK-47s, two M-16s, one rocket launcher, one .22 bore rifle, two 12-bore shotguns, two air rifles and a huge amount of ammunition from the same township. Local press reports said that in the last few months, security forces had seized over 100 sophisticated weapons and explosives including anti-tank mines, grenades, rocket launchers, bombs, machineguns and various chemicals from the frontier area close to Maungdaw, a bordering town in western Burma.
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