Terrorist hideout busted in J&K's Poonch
Official sources here said that during routine searches, a joint team of police and Army busted a terrorist hideout and recovered a cache of arms and ammunition.
The search party recovered, 14 rounds of AK rifle, six pistol rounds, three grenades, five pencil cells, wire cutter, multi-data cable connector, multi purpose knife, iron rod and a paint box.
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