IED event in Odisha, Malkangiri District area, India on Thu 16th December 2021

A significant cache of Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs), detonators, and other incriminating materials were recovered during an anti-Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) operations in Malkangiri District of Odisha on December 16, reports ommcomnews.com. The joint operation comprised personnel of the District Voluntary Force (DVF), Special Operation Group (SOG) and Border Security Force (BSF) and was carried out in the erstwhile cut-off area (Swabhiman Anchal) under Jodambo Police limits. The operation was carried out following the establishment of a new BSF company operating base (COB) at Ghanabeda, which received a tip-off on a Maoist dump near Nadmenjeri village. After receiving the input, a joint team was formed which carried out extensive searches and recovered the dump in a forested area of Nadmenjeri under Jantri Gram Panchayat under Jodambo Police limits, Superintendent of Police (SP) Prahlad Meena said. As many as five IEDs, three metres of Codex wire, three detonators, two batteries, iron scrap, Maoist literature, polythene sheets, lithium button cells, and several other Maoist materials were seized. “It is suspected that the explosives and other articles were intended to be target civilians and security forces,” Meena said.