Bhuj: The Border Security Force (BSF) today found a metal box containing around 400 live and empty cartridges/ammunition of various weapons including AK 47, SLR and INSAS rifle, partially buried in the bottom of a dry nullah near its camp in Khavda area close to the border of Pakistan in Kutch district of Gujarat.

Deputy Commandant of BSF Prabhat Sharma said that an information was received by BSF intelligence wing that a metal box containing ammunition was lying partially buried with its upper part visible in the dry Nullah situated at around 500 meters north of the camp of 150 battalion of BSF close to which the army camp was also situated.

He said that the box was dug out in which 176 live but rusty cartridges of weapons like AK 47, SLR and INSAS were found apart from 202 blank ones.

‘The condition of the ammunition reveals that these were very old and rusty and even the live ones were virtually unusable,’ he said adding that the matter has been handed over to Khavda police for further investigation.

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