KUMUD JENAMANI
Jamshedpur, April 13: Police and paramilitary forces on Thursday recovered two IEDs from a jungle under the Goelkera thana area of the Naxals-seized Kolhan forest division in the West Singhbhum.
The paramilitary forces had swung into action for the detection of the IEDs after a bovine was killed in a blast at a stretch of forest cover near Hathiburu village in Goelkera this morning.
Revealing about breakthrough, West Singhbhum SP, Ashutosh Shekhar has said that the paramilitary forces unearthed two IEDs weighing five kgs each from a jungle near the Hathiburu jungle this morning.
“Both the IEDs recovered from a forest cover close to Hathiburu village were pressure IEDs planted by the naxals. The paramilitary forces prompted to start a focused operation to detect the explosives after a bovine was blown up due to one of the pressure IEDs it had stepped on in the same forest cover this morning,” Ashutosh Shekhar has said in a press statement.
The SP pointed out that after two IEDs were detected, a bomb disposal squad got them disposed off in the forest. Rebels belonging to the outlawed naxal outfit, CPI-Maoist have sneaked into the dense Kolhan and adjoining Porahat forest divisions having planted an unspecified number of IEDs since January first week.
The police and paramilitary forces have started an operation to flush the naxals out since January 11, but due to the IED blasts over 15 paramilitary jawans were injured, some of them seriously.
Apart from the paramilitary jawans as many as four villagers were killed and as many injured in the blasts in the two forest divisions so far.
