A judge in Honduras has ordered the seizure of a huge arms cache being held in an army base for a Cuban-American arms dealer.

The weapons seized at the Naco military warehouse include anti-aircraft missiles, tens of thousands of assault rifles from Belgium and Eastern Europe, a million rounds of ammunition, and large amounts of explosives.

The arms allegedly belong to the Cuban dealer Mario Delamico, who in the 1980s supplied weapons to the US-backed Contra rebels who fought against the Sandinista govenrment in Nicaragua.

Judge Nelson Lopez has given army commander Mario Raul Hung Pacheco a week to explain how the weapons came to be in the warehouse.