NOVOSIBIRSK, August 10 (RIA Novosti, Yana Ryabinskaya) - The Trans-Baikal customs office in Siberia has foiled an attempt to smuggle small arms ammunition into China, its press office said Wednesday.
The customs officers at the Zabaikalsk international automobile checkpoint found a cache of ammunition in a KAMAZ truck, loaded with metal scrap, heading for China.
The stash included a 1943 machinegun belt with 79 armor-piercing 7.62 mm cartridges and almost 50 tracing cartridges for a 5.45 mm sub-machine gun.
A criminal investigation has been launched.
