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Ferozepur: BSF Seize Cache Of Arms From Suspicious Bag

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The Border Security Force (BSF) troops seized a huge cache of arms and ammunition from Ferozepur, Punjab, said, officials.

Ferozepur:  The Border Security Force (BSF) troops seized a huge cache of arms and ammunition from Ferozepur, Punjab, said, officials.

The recovery was made around 7 PM on Thursday. “Troops of BOP Jagdish, ex-136 Bn, Sector Ferozpur (Distt Ferozpur), Punjab recovered a bag during a search near the zero line containing arms and ammunition,” read an official statement from BSF.

The officials recovered 3 AK 47 rifles with 06 empty magazines, 03 nos mini AK 47 rifles (brand being ascertained) with 05 empty magazines, and 3 nos pistols (Beretta type) with 06 empty magazines.

The BSF also seized 200 rounds of ammunition (100 rounds of the rifle, and 100 rounds of the pistol).

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The Punjab Police has been informed for further action, said BSF.

Further investigations are underway.

Earlier in September 2022, the BSF and Punjab police had recovered one fully wrapped packet containing weapons, which had come from Pakistan’s side, at the farm of a local farmer in the Ferozepur district, near the India-Pakistan border.

The packet found near the Arif Ke police station in the Ferozepur district had an AK 47 and two magazines. BSF seized all the weapons recovered. The packet, which came from across the border, had “A1” written over it.

(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by HW News staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)

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The Northeast Frontier Railway zone of Indian Railways has decided to run three pairs of special trains between Dibrugarh-Gorakhpur-Dibrugarh and New Jalpaiguri-Gorakhpur-New Jalpaiguri and Amritsar-Katihar to clear the extra rush of passengers during the Chhath Utsav, said Sabyasachi De, Chief Public Relation Officer of NF Railway.

Guwahati:  The Northeast Frontier Railway zone of Indian Railways has decided to run three pairs of special trains between Dibrugarh-Gorakhpur-Dibrugarh and New Jalpaiguri-Gorakhpur-New Jalpaiguri and Amritsar-Katihar to clear the extra rush of passengers during the Chhath Utsav, said Sabyasachi De, Chief Public Relation Officer of NF Railway.

Special train no. 05978 (Dibrugarh – Gorakhpur) will run for one trip which left from Dibrugarh on October 27 and will reach Gorakhpur on October 29 morning. In the return direction, special train no. 05977 (Gorakhpur – Dibrugarh) will run for one trip leaving from Gorakhpur on November 1 to reach Dibrugarh the next day.

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Special train no. 05777 (Gorakhpur – New Jalpaiguri) will run for one trip leaving from Gorakhpur on October 29 to reach New Jalpaiguri the next day. In the return direction, special train no. 05778 (New Jalpaiguri – Gorakhpur) will run for one trip leaving from New Jalpaiguri on October 31 to reach Gorakhpur the next day.

On the other hand, the Amritsar-Katihar train will run today.

Meanwhile, The NF Railway has also decided to run three demo passenger trains under Katihar division.
The four-day Chhath festival starts today.

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