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Suspected Maoist IED unearthed by CRPF in Chhattisgarh

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Press Trust of India Raipur
A powerful improvised explosive device (IED) weighing 50 kg, suspected to have been planted by insurgents of the outlawed Communist Party of India (Maoist), was unearthed by security forces from a road in Chhattisgarh's Narayanpur district, a police official said here today.

Narayanpur's Additional Superintendent of Police O P Sharma told PTI that the IED was unearthed when the Central Reserve Police Force's (CRPF) 139th battalion was on an anti-Maoist operation on the Narayanpur-Antagarh road under Narayanpur police station limits.

On reaching Bharanda village, around 350 km away from Chhattisgarh's state capital Raipur, CRPF personnel spotted a wire after which they unearthed the IED packed in a steel container, placed three feet beneath the earth, the police official said.
 

It is suspected that the IED was planted by Maoists to trigger a landmine blast and harm security personnel, the police official said.

Later, a bomb disposal squad neutralised the IED, the police official said.

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First Published: Sep 21 2015 | 7:42 PM IST

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