Terrorists’ Arsenal Found in N. Ireland
BELFAST, Northern Ireland — Security forces found a large arsenal of weapons, including a Soviet-made rocket launcher, hidden in underground bunkers, police said Tuesday.
The Royal Ulster Constabulary said “a number of people” were arrested for questioning about the caches, discovered Monday and Tuesday in Strabane, County Tyrone, near Northern Ireland’s northwest border with the Irish Republic.
The haul included a Soviet RPG-7 rocket launcher and two warheads, more than 1,000 pounds of homemade explosives, two Soviet-made assault rifles, one shotgun, a large quantity of ammunition and detonators, explosive fuses and propellant charges, police said.
The arms were concealed in 40-gallon drums that had been welded together and buried in elaborately constructed bunkers under a hillside, police said.
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