KABUL, July 5 (Xinhua) -- The counter-terrorism police have discovered a huge quantity of arms and ammunition, including more than 100 pieces of firearms, during a series of operations in the southern Afghanistan Helmand province over the past two months, said a statement of the Ministry for Interior Affairs on Saturday.

The 105 pieces of variety of assault rifles including 14 stocks of Kalashnikovs, 63 pieces of pistols, a rocket propelled grenade, some machineguns and more than 3,000 of bullets of light and heavy weapons have been recovered during operations in different parts of the province, the statement posted on the ministry's X account added.

Police have also taken into custody a number of people for carrying arms illegally and handed them over to the judiciary for further investigation, the statement noted, without revealing the exact number of individuals detained.

In similar operations, police also discovered and seized six AK-47 assault rifles in the northern Sari Pul province last week. ■