SERBIAN POLICE FIND ARMS CACHE NEAR KOSOVO BORDER
SRNA - September 18, 2004

Presevo, 18 September: Members of the Gendarmerie today found a recoilless gun and a large quantity of mortar mines, explosives and other military equipment near the Mehaj section of the village of Depce, Presevo Municipality, in the immediate vicinity of the administrative boundary with Kosovo-Metohija.

The gendarmes discovered in wooden crates buried in the ground 11 mines for 82mm mortars, four 60mm mortar mines, two packs of recoilless gun shells, five fuses for 60mm mortar mines, three caps for 82mm mortars, a dynamite stick with a slow-burning fuse, several detonators and camouflage uniforms.

The crates containing the mines and explosives were not found in one single dugout but at several locations near a busy thoroughfare.

As the arms are of Chinese origin, members of the Gendarmerie believe that they were hidden during the armed clashes in southern Serbia, i.e. that they belonged to the OVPMB (ethnic Albanian-dominated Liberation Army of Presevo, Medvedja and Bujanovac).

Following an investigation, the discovered arms and explosives will be destroyed on the spot.

Source: SRNA news agency, Bijeljina, in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian 1257 gmt 18 Sep 04

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