Nagpur: Security forces on Thursday recovered a large quantity of ammunition hidden in the forest allegedly by Maoists in Dantewada district of south Chhattisgarh.
“We got a tip-off that Maoists had hidden a large quantity of arms and ammunition near Moranga village in Katekalyan block of Dantewada. A joint team of the CRPF’s 195 battalion, Chhattisgarh Special Task Force and District Reserve Guard was sent to the area. This team found a large quantity of ammunition from the hills near Moranga,” the Dantewada district police said in a statement.
The security forces recovered gelatin, detonators, hand grenades, arrow bombs and other material used for making bombs. “The gelatin packets had a mark of a factory in Nalagonda, Telangana, and ammonium nitrate was brought from a factory in Rourkela, Odisha,” said Kamlochan Kashyap, Superintendent of Police, Dantewada.