NUMEROUS high-powered firearms and assorted ammunition were seized by authorities from the residence of the head of a Taiwanese criminal group in Rockwell Center in Makati City Monday evening, Interior and Local Government Secretary Benjamin "Benhur" Abalos announced on Tuesday.

Abalos said in a press conference that a large cache of 84 firearms and hundreds of rounds of assorted live ammunition were confiscated during a search on the residence of one Jiang Zhang Xiadong also known as Liu Ming Chung.

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