Huge weapons cache including 54 BM-21 rockets discovered in Helmand By KHAAMA PRESS – Sun Oct 30 2016

A huge weapons cache belonging to the Taliban group was discovered and destroyed n southern Helmand province of Afghanistan, the Ministry of Interior (MoI) said Sunday.
The cache was discovered during an operation conducted in Nahr-e-Saraj district of Helmand as the Taliban militants were looking to use the weapons and explosives for the terrorist attacks.
“Last night, Afghan National Police (Special Units) launched a security operation in Nahar Saraj district of southern Helmand province,” Moi said.
“As a result of this operation, Afghan National Police (Special Units) discovered and confiscated a weapon cache consist of: 10 rocket launchers, 400 rifle grenades, 12 hand grenades, 54 BM-16 rockets, 200 PK machine gun bullets, 5 motorcycles, one radio handset and some amount of explosives,” MoI added .
The anti-government armed militant groups including the Taliban insurgents have not commented regarding the report so far.
Helmand is among the relatively volatile provinces in southern Afghanistan where the Taliban insurgents and militants belonging to other insurgent groups are actively operating in a number of its districts.
Officials in the 215th Maiwand Corps of the Afghan National Army (ANA) earlier said a factory producing Improvised Explosive Device (IED) for the Taliban militants was destroyed during an operation of the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) in this province.http://www.khaama.com/huge-weapons-cache-including-54-bm-21-rockets-discovered-in-helmand-02175