In a fierce encounter between the security forces and the red guerillas of banned outfit CPI (Maoists) as many as eight powerful landmines were recovered and defused and a temporary training camp of Maoists was destroyed in Shankara village under Tebo police station of West Singhbhum district on Wednesday.
During a joint search operation by the CRPF and State police following the encounter of Tuesday in which a commando of anti Naxal force Cobra was killed, the forces recovered landmines. The landmines were defused through safe explosion by bomb disposal squad. Station in-charge of Tebo N Kerketta said that a temporary training camp of the Maoists was also destroyed. Several items of daily use and Naxal literature were recovered from it.
He said details about the encounter were being awaited however there was no casualty of any security force was received. He revealed the area has been sealed and a combing operation has been launched to flush out the Maoist guerrillas from the area. He informed that the operation began from Tuesday will continue for the next couple of days in which the paramilitary force CRPF, and Jharkhand Police are participating.
“Security has been beefed up across the area. We are keeping a strict vigil on the movement of the villagers too. We are not much concerned about small acts of violence because these activities can be controlled by us,” said a security official.