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Cops search for GNLA chief’s heavy machine gun

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TURA: Garo Hills police, who had recovered two light machine guns, are trying to find another heavy machine gun (HMG) that allegedly belongs to the ULFA and handed over to the GNLA chief.
Since last year, a spate of surrenders by senior cadres of GNLA had led to the handing over of multiple rounds of the HMG ammunition.
The much talked about story of slain GNLA chief Sohan D Shira having left behind two powerful light machine guns has turned out to be true with the last one being recovered by East Garo Hills police on Sunday afternoon.
Prior to this recovery, police teams had retrieved another LMG from a jungle hideout a month back. The LMG is a powerful weapon that can take down a low flying chopper and even stop a troop carrier on its track and was used by Sohan as propaganda in social media to lure young recruits.
Search teams from the district police were informed about the presence of the weapons in a hideout at Bawegre village, across Simsang river. Together with the villagers a search was carried out leading to the recovery of the weapons which had been concealed in waterproof bags in a jungle.
Police found the 7.62 calibre LMG along with two additional barrels, a G3 rifle commonly used by troops from Pakistan and Bangladesh, four rocket propelled grenades (RPGs), a .303 calibre LMG barrel and 90 live rounds of ammunition.
The seized items were once the personal weapons of the GNLA chief who used to frequently brandish them before his cadres and on social media. It is believed that both the LMGs were smuggled from the illegal arms market in Nagaland under the guidance of then LAEF chief Peter Marak and Sohan Shira.

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