KUMUD JENAMANI
Jamshedpur, Feb 24: A middle-aged woman was seriously injured as she fell victim to an IED blast at a jungle under the Tonto thana area in West Singhbhum on Friday morning.
The victim identified as Jema Bahanda had gone to the Runkuburu jungle from her house in adjoining Patatarob village for picking up firewood in the morning when the explosion happened.
As a result of the blast, the woman’s legs and lower abdomen were ruptured, causing her to fall down on the spot.
Later a company of paramilitary 60 battalions entered the jungle and rescued the injured. The police had first taken the injured woman to a local health hub but keeping her condition in view they rushed her to Chaibasa Sadar Hospital for better treatment.
According to police, it was a low-intensity IED that was meant to blow up the paramilitary forces in the Runkuburu jungle which falls in the jurisdiction of the Porahat forest division.
The Naxals who have taken seize of Porahat and adjoining Kolhan forest divisions have planted thousands of such IEDs at strategic locations targeting the police and paramilitary forces engaged in the anti-insurgency operations there, but innocent villagers are falling prey to the evil design of the rebels.
Two days ago a 23-year-old youth, who was also a firewood picker, lost his life in a jungle in the Kolhan forest division which falls under the Goelkera police station area.
