A 25-kg improvised explosive device (IED), suspected to have been planted by the Naxals to target the polling staff and security forces during the lok Sabha polls, was recovered in Chhattisgarh’s Kondagaon district, police informed on Friday.
A detonator and 70 m wire were also recovered from the spot in the Maoist-affected district. A team of district police was on a combing operation when it recovered the explosive placed beneath a road near Hangwamini bridge on a rivulet, Kondagaon, Additional Superintendent of Police Surjit Atri, told reporters. The explosive was planted by the red rebels to attack the polling parties and security personnel during the polls this month, he said. Security forces are conducting de-mining operations in several areas of Bastar region ahead of voting to ensure violence-free polling. Several IEDs have been recovered from several Naxal-affected districts, including Balod and Kondagaon, in the past one week. lS Sabha seats, will vote in three phases on April 10, 17 and 24.