DUSHANBE, July 25, 2011, Asia-Plus -- A large arms cache has been discovered in Dushanbe.

The Interior Ministry says the arms cache containing 18 RGD-5 and F-1 hand grenades, 23 bullets for the KPVT heavy machine gun, four shells for attached grenade launcher, 13 shells for the BMP (infantry fighting vehicle) gun, some 5,000 bullets of different caliber, and two unserviceable antipersonnel mines was discovered on territory of the building materials enterprises in Dushanbe’s Ismoili Somoni district on July 24.

Criminal proceedings have been instituted an investigation is under way.