By IANS
Monterrey (Mexico) : The Mexican police have seized a huge cache of arms, ammunitions and drugs on a highway leading to the US border, EFE news agency reported Sunday.
Hundreds of boxes of ammunition, 41 firearms, 12 grenades and 29 packets of cocaine were seized near the border Saturday, the police said.
This was the second incident since Friday in the Tamaulipas state, bordering the US state of Texas, where security forces confiscated a huge cache of weapons.
The army Friday seized 94 weapons, including assault rifles, handguns and a machine gun in Miguel Aleman city. Around 80,000 rounds of ammunition, explosives and nine tonnes of marijuana were also seized.
The authorities said it was one of the biggest seizures of weapons in the last 20 years. The police have also arrested the drivers of the two vehicles involved in Friday’s incident.
Tamaulipas is considered the stronghold of the Mexican Gulf drug cartel. The army and federal police have been deployed to dozens of Mexican states in a bid to stop the wave of violence unleashed by the nation’s drug cartels. Some 2,700 people were killed in drug-related violence last year.