Security forces comprising DAP latehar and the CRPF seized huge stocks of deadly improvised explosive devices (IED), pressure cooker bombs, cartridges and chemicals on Saturday from the jungles falling under two police stations of Herhunj and Manika in latehar district.
latehar SP Anoop Birtharey said that the security forces recovered two IEDs of 35 kg each, besides two pressure cooker bombs weighing 5 kg each along with 1,145 cartridges of 0.22 bore. All these seizures were done during two search operations made in the jungles of Herhunj and Manika.
The SP said that it was Doree jungle in Herhunj and Vishunpura bandh jungle in Manika. Also, 60 kg of chemicals were recovered in plastic containers. The chemicals were ammonium nitrate and ammonium sulphate, he added.
Apart from this, security forces also recovered naphthalene balls that are used as insecticides in houses. The Maoists use these balls to further make their IEDs more deadly, said the SP. These balls were more than 2,000 to 2,500 in numbers.
Police sources said that Maoist badges were also recovered from the dumping site that was found with the help of specific inputs from intelligence sources.
These articles were just hidden in the jungles in a way nobody could get any suspicion about them.
Notably, on May 27 last, security personnel had recovered another huge consignment of the Maoists. As many as 577 pipe bombs, 335 gelatin bombs, 263 hand grenades, 183 cartridges and 3 ammunition chargers were buried in a 500-litre capacity water tank.