Security forces have recovered two improvised explosive devices (IEDs), allegedly planted by Maoists, from separate places in Chhattisgarh’s insurgency-hit Kanker district, police said.
While an explosive weighing 10 kg was unearthed from Bande police station area, another of 5 kg was recovered from Siksod police station limits, Kanker Superintendent of Police Jitendra Singh Meena told PTI.
Acting on a tip-off, a joint squad of Border Security Force (BSF) and district police launched a demining operation on Rengawahi road, a Maoist hotbed, located around 250 kms away from here, he said.
On reaching a bridge between Marweda and Rengawahi villages, they spotted an electric wire connection following which an IED ssswas found placed under the bridge. --PTI.
