Agartala, Sep 17 - A 16-year-old boy was arrested with three US-made pistols and ammunition as authorities claimed to have foiled a terror strike planned during the upcoming Durga Puja celebrations in Tripura, officials said Thursday.

Based on specific intelligence inputs, security forces arrested Shiva Das from this Tripura capital late Wednesday and recovered three US-made pistols, five loaded magazines, and a large cache of other ammunition, police said.

'The arms and ammunition were smuggled from Bangladesh by an arms racket to sell them to terrorists using the juvenile arms carrier,' west Tripura district police chief K.V. Sreejesh told IANS.

'At the moment we shall not disclose anything about the development as we are getting interesting clues about the trans-border arms smuggling.'

In a separate development, police arrested three wanted criminals, including their leader Sahadeb Das, 42, and uncovered a plan by them to attack Agartala before or during the Durga Puja festivities that begin next week.