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| June 24, 2003 | Tuesday | Rabi-us-Sani 23,1424 |
22 missiles seized
PESHAWAR, June 23: The paramilitary troops in Kurram Agency have seized 22 Russian missiles from the house of an Afghan refugee in a midnight raid, sources said on Monday.
They said the political administration of Kurram Agency
was tipped-off about the big cache of heavy weapons dumped in a goodown at Kharlachi village, one kilometre from Afghanistan.
The Khasadar and Kurram militia forces raided the goodown late Saturday night and recovered 22 Russian-made missiles, they said.
The goodown was owned by a refugee, Mira Jan, who scaped to Afghanistan a few days ago, sources said.
Sources said each missile weiged 15kg.
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