A police team led by Inspector Arjun KC that reached the forest after receiving reports about movement of suspicious individuals in the area found the weapon and bullets Sunday evening, according to Deputy Superintendent of Police Tek Bahadur Tamang.
“It is unclear who left the weapon there and why,” DSP Tamang said.
Though locals suspect the weapon was stolen by Kirant Workers´ Party during the attack they mounted on a police post in Nunthala in the night of May 4 this year, DSP Tamang dismissed the suspicion.
“Police don´t use SMG. Only the army and Armed Police Force are equipped with SMGs,” he said, adding, that police have already recovered all weapons stolen from the police post in Nunthala.
Police have initiated an investigation based on an assumption that the weapon might have been hidden in the forest by an armed group.
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