Troops Find Suspected Taliban Weapons Cache
Afghan security forces discovered hundreds of land mines, rockets and rounds of machine-gun ammunition in an underground cache that they suspect belonged to the ousted Taliban militia, said a government official in the southwestern province of Nimruz.
The weapons were seized late Wednesday near a village in Ghar Ghori district, southwest of Kandahar. When the troops dug up the site, they found 760 land mines and 520 boxes containing hundreds of rockets and an unspecified quantity of machine-gun ammunition.
No arrests were made.
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