Guerrilla hideout busted in Kishtwar

A guerrilla hideout was busted in Jammu and Kashmir's Kishtwar district and a cache of arms and ammunition recovered, a defence official said.

"Based on the specific intelligence inputs about presence of a militant hideout, a joint operation was launched by the Rashtriya Rifles and the state police in Bunda forest in Kishtwar district," defence spokesman Col. Manish Mehta told IANS here.

"War-like stores were recovered. These included one rocket propelled grenade launcher (RPG) with one round, one PIKA rifle, one .303 rifle, one .315 rifle, one 12 bore rifle, two pistols, 5 rounds of 9 mm pistol, 209 rounds of 7.62 mm calibre, 225 rounds of AK-47 assault rifles, 54 rounds of PIKA, six hand-grenades, four under barrel grenade launcher (UBGL) grenades, seven detonators, three kilograms of RDX and one radio set," he added.