Border Security Force (BSF) recovered bombs dumped in a forest in Odisha's Malkangiri district.
BHUBANESWAR: The Border Security Force (BSF) personnel on Tuesday recovered bombs dumped in a forest in Odisha’s Malkangiri district, thus averting a major explosion during an anti-Maoist operation.
The explosives were randomly placed underground reportedly by Maoists to cause extensive casualty at Kamarguda forest under Padia police limits in Left Wing Extremism (LWE)-affected region.
According to reports, the BSF 142 Battalion personnel found five powerful improvised explosive devices (IEDs) during a combing operation at the forest in Malkangiri and successfully defused the bombs to avert a major Maoist menace in the district.
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