Imphal, June 30 -- Security forces and Manipur Police carried out a series of successful operations across the state on Monday, recovering a large cache of arms, ammunition and explosives from Bishnupur and Jiribam districts, besides arresting two persons with suspected brown sugar in Senapati district, Manipur Police said on Tuesday.
In the first operation, security forces recovered a substantial cache of arms, ammunition and war-like stores concealed among the biomass (phumdi) of Loktak Lake near the Phubala Patton area under Moirang Police Station in Bishnupur district. The recovered items included one RPG launcher, two .32 pistols with magazines, two hand grenades, two Lathode bombs, two RPG grenades, one improvised mortar shell, one a...