Katihar(Bhagalpur), Jul 1: The GRP today seized the front parts of five rocket launchers, 70 empty ammunitions and one live ammunition from Kataria-Kursaila rail bridge on Kosi River in Bihar's Katihar district, a railway official said.

Acting on information, Naugachhia GRP recovered the weapons contained in a sack from pole number two of Kataria-Kursaila rail bridge at about 9 am, station master of Kursaila station Mahadev Mandal said.

He said that Hathe-Bajare Express was stopped at Kursaila station for about 20 minutes as a precautionary measure in the wake of the seizure of the weapons.