Reuters :
Myanmar security forces seized a large cache of weapons on a truck bound for Mandalay this week, after arresting insurgents following a firefight in the country’s second-biggest city, state media reported on Friday.
Since seizing power from the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi on February 1, the military junta has sought to stamp out dissent and killed or arrested hundreds of protesters.
Opponents of the coup have responded by forming militias though they have generally been lightly armed with attacks focused in rural areas or smaller cities.
The state-run Global New Light of Myanmar newspaper carried a photograph of four arrested people in front of a weapons cache. It reported security forces had seized more than 100 firearms, 10,000 bullets, 499 grenades, along with bombs and detonators.
