18k detonators, explosives seized in West Singhbhum
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Jamshedpur: In a major recovery, security forces have unearthed 18,000 live detonators along with some explosives hidden by Maoists in the West Singhbhum district on Tuesday.
The explosives were recovered from a hilly forest in the Maoist-hit Husipi village under the Tonto police station of the district.
According to the police officers, the explosive items were found when the joint security forces comprising personnel of the CRPF 60 Battalion, Jharkhand Jaguar (JJ) and district police came across the detonators hidden underground while conducting a combing operation in the area after getting specific tip-offs.
Police have said the search and combing operation was carried out based on intelligence inputs about the explosives being hidden in the forest by the Naxalites to target the security forces.
"The recovered detonators and explosives were defused in a controlled manner by a bomb disposal squad of the district police," a senior district police officer said.
The officer further said the search operations were being carried out extensively in the forested area and would be continuing to recover explosives and other contraband items, if any, planted or hidden by the outlawed group to target security forces, civilians or their adversaries.
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