Al-Tanf, Damascus Countryside- The authorities seized on Sunday a huge consignment of weapons in a refrigerator car driven by an Iraqi in a bid to smuggle it from Iraq to Syria via al-Tanf border crossing.
Director-General of Syrian Customs Mustapha al-Bikai said the weapons seized comprise up-to-date machine guns of various kinds, automatic rifles, sniper rifles, pistols, telescopes, bomb-shooters and large quantities of various kinds of ammunition.
He said the weapons were hidden in a clandestine 12-meter-long cache, well-prepared and equipped with compressors for opening it, adding that the weapons were enveloped in a tin material so as not to be detected by devices.
Bikai said other weapons consignments have been seized lately as there were attempts at smuggling them into Syria via Bab al-Hawa, as-Salama, Jdaidet Yabous crossings.
''Transport and passengers' movement continue as usual,'' said al-Bikai, answering a question on the situation at the border crossing following seizure of the consignment.
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