JELI: Two brothers, who were searching for their missing kite, stumbled upon a plastic bag containing 382 live bullets at a fruit farm in Kampung Pasir Dusun here yesterday.Jeli OCPD DSP Muhammad Hanifa Abd Malek said the teenagers, aged 14 and 17, brought the bullets home thinking they were crayons.
“Their father later called police upon checking the contain of the plastic bag. We have ascertained that they are live bullets,” he told reporters here.
Police believed the bullets were about a decade old based on their rusty condition.
Of the total, 262 pieces were from the 5.56mm type, 81 pieces of the 9mm type and one from the 7.62mm type.
He said a forensic team was dispatched to the scene and found 35 more 5.5mm and three 9mm bullets. — Bernama