An Improvised Explosive Device (IED) of about 2 kgs planted by Maoists, was recovered from an insurgency-hit pocket of Chhattisgarh's Dhamtari District, police said on Thursday.
The IED was unearthed by a team of District Force (DF) from a road in the dense forest falling under Borai Police Station limits last evening, according to Dhamtari Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP) Ashok Pipre.
Acting on a tip-off, the security personnel launched the operation to track the IED in the region and unearthed the same placed in a steel container between Katti and Saiguda villages, he said.
The explosive was defused by the bomb disposal squad and brought to the police station, Pipre said.