Police held consignment of illegal weapons

District

PESHAWAR:The City police on Monday foiled a bid to smuggle a huge quantity of arms and seized a consignment of illegal weapons from the Nothiya area here in Saddar.

According to Police the raid was conducted on a tip-off in the Nothiya area and recovered 82 pistols, 57 twelve-bore rifles and thousands of cartridges of various bores.

Police arrested two suspects during the operation and started the investigation after registering an FIR.