This story is from August 3, 2015

Police neutralize explosives recovered from terrorists

Police, with the help of Army personnel, on Sunday disposed of the single-shot disposable rocket launcher (DRL) recovered after the three terrorists who attacked Dinanagar police station last Monday were shot dead.
Police neutralize explosives recovered from terrorists
GURDASPUR: Police, with the help of Army personnel, on Sunday disposed of the single-shot disposable rocket launcher (DRL) recovered after the three terrorists who attacked Dinanagar police station last Monday were shot dead. The DRL was disposed of in a 6x4 pit dug in the ground near border village Makora Pattan.
The trio also had a rocket-propelled grenade launcher with them that was also disposed of on Sunday.
Inspector general Ishwar Chander Sharma said the militants couldn't use DRL since police had kept them engaged with heavy firing from different angles. He said if the militants had been successful in using the DRL it could have caused massive damage.
Senior superintendent of police, Gurdaspur, Gurpreet Singh Toor said that DRL was examined by Army experts before disposing it of. He said the final recovery of arms and ammunition from the terrorists includes 3 AK-47 rifles, 21 magazines, 89 live rounds, 305 empty cartridges, 3 magazine carrying belts, 1 DRL, 5 blind grenades, 1 live grenade, 2 GPS, caps, shoes, leather belts and gloves.
As reported by TOI earlier, the three terrorists who stormed the Dinanagar police station complex on July 27 had enough ammunition to fire in bursts for at least 48 hours. Police said the trio's guns were in semi-auto mode, thereby implying that "they wanted to keep firing 4-6 bursts at and kill as many as possible".
"The tactic would have easily allowed them to continue firing for two days. In the semi-auto mode, the gun fires only once after a trigger is released. So they wanted to keep hitting us in bursts," said a senior cop in Gurdaspur.
In addition, there were conflicting versions on the recovery of a braided rope, made of high performance fibre. Though a top cop with Punjab's Special Weapons And Tactics (SWAT) team confirmed a rope, meant to tie hostages, was recovered, intelligence official denied it.
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