A joint team of the CRPF and local Gomia police recovered 10 kg of cane bomb planted besides a culvert on Gomia-Visungrah road, barely 5 km away from IEl police and Visungrah police station on Monday morning, said the superintendent of police A Vijaya laxami. The forces have intensified the search operation in the Maoist–hit Nawadih police station area for the past few days. Maoists itching to create fresh terror in the area to stay their business, had another failure when the police successfully averted a major disaster by recovering one piece of powerful Cane bomb connected with electronic detonator near Sadaro forest areas .
The operation, carried out by Gomia officer–in charge B Ram and CRPF inspector Athar Singh along with in association with 26-B CRPF battalion ended on Monday afternoon. However, no arrest could be made as the cane bomb was found dumped, said O/C B Ram.
In course of a combing operation in the Naxal-hit jungles, the team came across a cane bomb planted on the Gomia-Visungrah road. It was aimed at blowing the police patrolling party. The cane bomb was about to blast but fortunately it as detected and defused within time by an anti-bomb squid.