Indian police intercept weapons

Three men suspected of belonging to a Pakistan-based militant organisation were arrested yesterday transporting weapons and ammunition towards Kashmir, police said. Police intercepted the men early yesterday and seized four AK-56 assault rifles, two AK-47s, 6 magazines and 180 rounds, said police official Shridhar Patil “The truck was coming from (Indian state of ) Punjab and was on its way to Kashmir,” Patil told a news conference.

Police said the men, all residents of Kashmir, were affiliated to Jaish-e-Mohammed, the Pakistan-based Islamist group that claimed a suicide bombing in February in Kashmir that killed 40 Indian troops. On Wednesday police said that a militant affiliated to Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), another Pakistani-based militant group, was killed by security forces.