6 days ago
Security forces recover 8 IEDs, arms and ammunition in Latehar
Daltonganj: Security forces have recovered eight improvised explosive devices (IED), weapons, ammunition and a wireless set while conducting search operations in Netarhat police station limits where a gunfight took place with the Maoists on May 26.
The IEDs, weighing 500 gm each, were hidden in a rocky and forested terrain of Toota Pani under Netarhat police station limits. "The bomb disposal squad of the CRPF 11 Battalion diffused all the eight IEDs," Latehar superintendent of police (SP) Kumar Gaurav said.
"Apart from the IEDs, the police and a contingent of the CRPF recovered one SLR rifle and one 9 mm carbine, 269 cartridges of different bores," Gaurav said. One wireless set was recovered, along with four magazines of the SLR.
On May 26, Maoist sub-zonal commander Manish Yadav, who carried a bounty of Rs 5 lakh, was killed in an encounter with the security forces in the area. That apart, a zonal commander, Kundan Kherwar, was arrested.
