BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan, Aug. 5 (UPI) -- Police in Kyrgyzstan said Tuesday they have seized a cache of firearms and ammunition in a house rented by U.S. nationals in Bishkek.
Kyrgyz Interior Ministry officials said the raid found heavy machine guns, assault rifles, rifle-attached grenade launchers, sniper rifles and night vision devices, the Russian information agency Novosti reported.
The house in which they were found was owned by a 66-year-old Kyrgyz resident. The news agency said U.S. Embassy officials and 10 U.S. servicemen, ostensibly in Kyrgyzstan to train a local special task unit, were in the house during the raid.
A U.S. Embassy spokesman told RIA Novosti that the weapons had been kept in the house with the permission of Kyrgyz authorities and that the servicemen were in the country for anti-terrorist training exercises and characterizing the raid as an "unpleasant incident."
