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Weapons cache recovered in NE Afghanistan

English.news.cn   2010-02-19 19:13:43 FeedbackPrintRSS

KABUL, Feb. 19 (Xinhua) -- An Afghan-international patrol has seized a weapons cache in the country's northeastern Nuristan province, said the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) on Friday.

The NATO force said in a press release that the cache, which was recovered in Nurgaram district of the province late on Thursday, consisted of 12 107mm rockets and two rocket-propelled grenades.

On Thursday, a civilian informed an Afghan-NATO joint patrol of another weapons cache buried in a field in Garm Ser district of the southern Helmand province.

The patrol recovered the cache containing 22 mortar rounds.

Editor: Fang Yang
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