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Arms cache seized in Bombay

The Bombay police on Monday seized a cache of sophisticated arms and detonating devices from two aides of gangster Dawood Ibrahim.

Naibuddin and Mohammed Sharif, aged between 24 and 26 and believed to have links with the Inter-Services Intelligence of Pakistan, were arrested from a car at Cotton Green in central Bombay.

The cache comprised seven AK-56 assault rifles, 200 rounds of live ammunition, 47 hand-grenades with Pakistani markings, and 42 empty magazines, police said.

This is the biggest arms haul in the city in recent times. Preliminary inquiries have revealed that the consignment was part of the arms and explosives brought in for the 1993 bomb blasts.

This seizure might help in solving some old murders in which firearms were used, police said.

UNI

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