IED event in Chhattisgarh, Dantewada District area, India on Tue 21st December 2021

An Assistant Constable of the District Reserve Guard (DRG) was injured when Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres denoted an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) in Dantewada District of Chhattisgarh on December 21, reports Deccan Chronicle. Dantewada's Superintendent of Police (SP), Abhishek Pallava said, the incident took place around 8.30 am when a joint team of various Security Forces (SFs) was out on a road security operation near Bodli camp, located over 400 kilometres from the State capital Raipur. A team of personnel belonging to the DRG, the Special Task Force (STF) and the Chhattisgarh Armed Force (CAF) had launched the operation on a hypersensitive patch from Bodli towards Kariametta village, he said, adding that about 650 metres away from the camp, Maoists hiding in a forest triggered an IED blast in which an assistant constable received minor splinter injuries. The rebels also exploded another command pipe IED in the area at around 10 am to target SFs, but the latter escaped unhurt, SP, Pallava added. Later, SFs cordoned off the entire area and recovered four live IEDs, planted by Maoists.