Erode, September 26: A 50-year-old SBBL gun and six bullets were seized from a locked room in a private hotel in this district, police said on Thursday. Acting on a tip-off, a police team raided the hotel located on Sathyamangalam main road on Wednesday night.

They checked all the rooms and after breaking open a locked room, booked by a north Indian, they found the 15 cm long oldest Single Barrel Breach Loading (SBBL) gun and six bullets kept under a pillow in the bed. Tamil Nadu: Police Arrest 6 Bangladeshi Nationals Without Proper Documents at Tiruppur Bus Stop.

It is said that the person had booked the room on 22 September and left on Wednesday noon. A search is on for him, police said.

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