India, May 16 -- The Army on Friday said it recovered seven AK-47 rifles, an RPG launcher, a M4 rifle, and four single-barrel breech-loading rifles, and other war-like stores from the scene of a gun battle that left 10 insurgents dead along the India-Myanmar border in Manipur's Chandel.

In a statement, the Army said the identities of the 10 slain militants were being ascertained. It cited preliminary assessments and said they suggested the militants were involved in cross-border insurgent activity.

The insurgents were killed on Wednesday after a patrol of the Assam Rifles was fired upon near Chandel's New Samtal, a remote tribal village about 150 km south of Manipur's capital, Imphal. Manipur has around 398 km of border with Myanmar. In...