Ahead of Home Minister Rajnath Singh’s visit to Chhaittisgarh today, security forces have recovered two powerful tiffin bombs from Naxal-hit Sukma district’s Dornapal region.
A joint party of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), and district force was patrolling the Sukma-Dornpal route when they found two tiffins containing Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs), weighing 10 kg each, underground, near Misma, located nearly 450 km away from Sukma, informed Prafulla Kispotta, Sukma Sub-Divisional Officer of Police.
The explosives, planted by Naxals, were recovered by a joint team of security personnel near Misma village on the Sukma-Dornapal route under Dornapal Police Station limits.
— Prafulla Kispotta, Sukma Sub-Divisional Officer of Police
Mid-April, the Naxalites had managed four attacks in a span of three days, killing five policemen and a Border Security Force (BSF) official.
According to a NDTV report, 18 trucks carrying iron-ore were set on fire on April 12.
The struggle between maoists and security forces have claimed several lives, on both sides, in the past decade.
Patrolling has now been intensified in the interior forest pockets and inter-state borders according to a police official.
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