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4 IEDs found from unused polling centre

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Press Trust of India Jamshedpur
Four Improvised Explosive Devices were today recovered from an unused polling centre in Maoist-affected Kasiabeda in Singbhum East district, the police said.

Led by Musaboni Deputy Superintendent of Police, Bachandeo Kujjur, a bomb disposal squad searched the polling centre in Jamshedpur Lok Sabha constituency and found the four IEDs each weighing between two-and-half kg and three kg.

Kujjur said the polling centre was shifted to a nearby building at the last minute before starting of voting yesterday after securitymen found a wire near the centre.

However, search operation could not be carried out there yesterday as the bomb disposal squad were engaged in other parts of the sub-division.
 

The IEDs, which were later defused, were planted by Maoists to disrupt the poll as well as to target the security personnel, Kujjur told PTI.

The Maoists have given a poll boycott call in the state.

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First Published: Apr 18 2014 | 7:23 PM IST

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