U.S. Navy says it seizes arms from Iran likely bound for Yemen
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Sailors boarded the vessel and found 1,400 Kalashnikov-style rifles and 2,26,600 rounds of ammunition, as well five Yemeni crew members.
The U.S. Navy said it seized a large cache of assault rifles and ammunition being smuggled by a fishing ship from Iran likely bound for war-ravaged Yemen.
U.S. Navy patrol ships discovered the weapons aboard what the Navy described as a stateless fishing vessel in an operation that began on Monday in the northern reaches of the Arabian Sea off Oman and Pakistan.
Sailors boarded the vessel and found 1,400 Kalashnikov-style rifles and 2,26,600 rounds of ammunition, as well five Yemeni crew members.
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