The area in Grand Gedeh County where the arms were found is one of the places where mercenaries and militias employed by Ivory Coast's deposed ruler fled after he was toppled on April 11. A police statement said authorities had uncovered 1,439 AK-47 rounds, over 70 AK-47 magazines, 67 AK-47 rifles, as well as 50-Calibre machine guns, RPGs and anti-aircraft steel rockets.
Some 92 refugees from Ivory Coast who crossed the border in April and May are being detained for questioning, police said. Laurent Gbagbo, the former Ivorian leader, took his country to war in a final bid to stay in power after losing last year's presidential election to his longtime rival. He hung on for five bloody months, and in the final weeks his government openly gave out arms to youth groups that had voted for him.
The distributions were a last-ditch effort to protect him from the army fighting to install the country's democratically elected leader.
