(Rab) yesterday recovered a huge cache of firearms and ammunition from the Satchhari National Park in Habiganj.Two light machine guns (LMGs), nine sub-machine guns (SMGs), six self-loading rifles (SLRs), one automatic rifle, one sniper telescope-side, one SMC (sub-machine carbine), one Beta gun and 2,400 rounds of 7.62mm bullets were recovered during a raid in the forest in Chunarughat upazila, bordering the Indian state of Tripura, said Mufti Mahmud Khan, director, Legal and Media Wing of the Rab.
He was briefing journalists at the headquarters of Crime Prevention Company (CPC) -2 of the Rab in Srimangal upazila of Moulvibazar at 12:30pm following the haul. This is the third such haul in three months from the same forest.