Four AK-47 assault rifle, one carbine machine seized

Mizoram Police seized four AK-47 assault rifles and one M-4 A-1 Carbine machine from three suspected gun runners from the Mizoram-Myanmar border Champhai town, police sources said today.

The police also seized 1,200 rounds of AK-47 rifle ammunition, four magazines, 12 rounds of the Carbine Machine Gun and one magazine yesterday, the sources said.

Two persons, one of them a resident of Aizawl and another from Tahan in Myanmar, were arrested while another suspected Myanmarese national is absconding.

The arms were reportedly smuggled from Myanmar, they said.