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Huge cache of bullets found
A huge cache of bullets was found in a community forest at Bherimalika Municipality-3 in the district on Monday.A huge cache of bullets was found in a community forest at Bherimalika Municipality-3 in the district on Monday.
According to Police Inspector Hikmat Bohara, 590 bullets of different calibers were found in the Syalapakha Community Forest. The site is 100 metres south of the Jajarkot-Dolpa road stretch.
Local residents had seen the scattered bullets in the forest and informed the police. Investigating officers suspected the bullets to have been hidden during the Maoist insurgency there.
Bohara said most of the bullets are not used in the guns carried by police personnel. “It seems the bullets were left in the forest while being transported to another place,” he added.
Police suspect that the one who dumped the bullets in the forest might as well possess weapons. Security personnel had recovered 50 three-naught-three rifles, a two-inch mortar and 250 rounds of ammunition from Bherimalika-2 two years ago.