KUMUD JENAMANI
Jamshedpur, March 13: In a significant breakthrough, the police and paramilitary forces unearthed as many as 10 IEDs from the Naxal-infested Tonto Thana area in West Singhbhum district about 100 km from here on Wednesday.
So many IEDs at a time were recovered from in and around Jimki-Ikir village under the Tonto Thana area during an anti-insurgency operation carried out jointly by the police and paramilitary forces in the rebel-infested region.
While eight of the explosive devices weighed three kgs, two others weighed four kgs and five kgs respectively.
All the IEDs were planted at the strategic points on the mud roads in the hilly terrain, aimed at the paramilitary forces who have been carrying out a special operation in the Tonto Thana area since October 10 last year.
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Apart from the IEDs, the paramilitary forces have unearthed two spike-holes from the adjoining Goelkera Thana area while carrying out the operation there also.
According to a press note issued by the West Singhbhum police, the IEDs were detonated safely at the same spot from where those explosive devices were found.
It may be mentioned here that an unspecified number of IEDs have been planted by the CPI-Maoist rebels in Kolhan and adjoining Porahat forest divisions since January last year. The so-called veteran Naxal leader Misir Besra and others who like filthy rats have taken refuge in the dense forest, giving challenging time to the police and the paramilitary forces.
Moreover, the inhuman and anti-social Naxals have not only inflicted injuries to over a dozen paramilitary forces, several of them fatally, but the rebels have also blown up over a dozen innocent villagers with the IEDs that the Naxals have planted while sneaking into the dense forest cover.