Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, Jan 28: The CRPF and the Bihar Police conducted a coordinated operation on Friday to retrieve a sizable cache of improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in the Aurangabad area.
13 IEDs were initially discovered in Maoist hideouts at Laduiya Pahad in Aurangabad. The CRPF soldiers reached a cave during the search operation and found 149 IEDs there, each weighing roughly a kilogrammeMaoist-prone.
The CRPF eliminated the IEDs by a controlled explosion while taking all necessary safety measures.
Bihar | Police recover 162 IEDs in intensive operations against Maoists. Operations continue in Maoist prone areas to recover planted arms and ammunition. Police destroyed 13 IEDs in Aurangabad and 149 IEDSs weighing a kg each were discovered in a cave nearby and destroyed: CRPF pic.twitter.com/31zcqlHMTv
— ANI (@ANI) January 28, 2023
The discovery of the weapons comes just a few days after a sizable cache of weapons and ammunition was found in a jungle near Aurangabad.
The CRPF claims that the guns and explosives found belonged to the Maoists, who likely dropped them while fleeing the region in response to an attack carried out by the CRPF and Bihar Police to flush them out.
