Two IEDs planted near police station in Chhattisgarh found

Security forces today found two improvised explosive devices (IEDs), including a powerful one, planted allegedly by Maoists near a police stationin Chhattisgarh's insurgency-hit Sukma district.
A joint team of security personnel found the IEDs while carrying out a demining exercise near Fulbagdi police station on Kerlapal-Fulbagdi road, a Naxal hotbed, Sukma Additional Superintendent of Police Santosh Singh said.
While a powerful IED weighed 10 kgs, another was of two kgs, he said.
Acting on a specific input that rebels have planted IEDs near Fulbagdi police station, a joint team of Central Reserve Police Force's II battalion and district force launched the demining operation this morning, Singh said.

Around 600 metres away from the police station, they spottedelectric wire connections following which theIEDs kept in steel containers were found hidden beneath the earth, averting a major mishap, he said.
The explosiveswere immediately destroyed by the bomb disposal squad, he said.

The bombs were planted by rebels to harm security forces during their operations on a strategically important location in the self-proclaimed liberated zone of Maoists, the ASP added.
In a separate incident, police had yesterday recovered a 5-kg tiffin bomb and a pipe bomb from Mardapal police station area of Kondagon district.
While carrying out a demining exercise between Khodsanar- Ranapal villages following a tip-off, a police team spotted the tiffin bomb planted at an under-construction bridge, a police official said.

A detonator and 200 metres of wire were also seized from the spot.
Subsequently, security personnel recovered a pipe bomb between Mundipadar and Handapal village on the same route, he said, adding that the bombs were immediately crippled by BDS.