ALGIERS, Jan. 8 (Xinhua) -- Algeria's Defense Ministry said Sunday that the country's anti-terror troops discovered on Saturday a large number of war weapons in the southernmost town of Tin Zaouatine near the border with Mali.
"A combined military unit discovered on Saturday a hiding place containing a large quantity of war weapons and ammunition," the defense ministry said in a statement.
The bunker, with suspected links to terrorists, housed a 60mm mortar, two 12.7mm machine guns, a PKT machine gun, a FMPK machine gun, 9 Kalashnikov submachine gun, 4 Simonov semiautomatic rifles, 4 repeating rifles and many bullets of different calibers, according to the statement.
