POLICE FIND WEAPONS IN WESTERN AZERI DISTRICT AFTER TIP-OFF

Lider TV, Baku
6 Mar 06

[Presenter] A large batch of arms and ammunition has been found by
the side of a road between Xanlar and Goy Gol [western Azerbaijan].

The person who had left the weapons tipped off the Xanlar district
police.

[Correspondent, over video of cartridges, guns] A total of 4,500 5.45
mm bullets, four magazines, two Kalashnikov rifles, one sawn-off
16 mm shotgun, four F-1 hand grenades, a 32-mm hunting rifle, one
small-calibre pistol, 120 machine-gun cartridges and a bayonet were
found following an anonymous call to the duty unit of the Xanlar
police.

Police chief Maharram Quliyev said that the weapons had been left
by the side of the Xanlar – Goy Gol road. Some people resort to such
methods because they are cautious about handing over their weapons.

[Maharram Quliyev] Those were the weapons given to people at the
start of the war [for Nagornyy Karabakh] in 1990-91 when the state
was not strong enough. People are handing over the weapons that were
given to them during the war.

[Correspondent] A similar anonymous call was made to the Xanlar
police earlier this year. The police then discovered a five-shot gun
and cartridges.