Kabul (25th Feb 2011): In Zharay district, Kandahar province, an Afghan National Security Force and ISAF patrol discovered an IED cache consisting of 28 x 3 litre jugs, two 20 litre jugs and eight 5 litre jugs filled with homemade explosives, one pressure cooker filled with HME material, two 18kg containers of heavy machine gun ammunition rounds and one type 65 mortar filled with HME material. All items were wrapped in detonation cord, ready to be emplaced as improvised explosive devices, the ISAF patrol reported.
A second cache site was found in the area consisting of one 2000 litre tank filled with multiple 155 mm rounds, various anti-tank and anti-personnel mines, multiple jugs of homemade explosives, pressure plates and detonation wire.
In Panjwa’i district, Kandahar province, an Afghan and coalition forces patrol discovered a weapons cache consisting of 11 grenades, 200 7.62 mm rounds, three RPG warheads, several loose weapon parts, 20 litres of ammonium nitrate, 75 metres of detonation cord, two rolls of copper wire, and various additional IED components and instruction manuals.
All weapons have been or will be destroyed by security forces.
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