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IED event in Jharkhand, West Singhbhum area, India on Tue 1st November 2022

1st November 2022

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Security Forces (SFs) seized eight Improvised Explosive Device (IED) planted by Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) from a forest in West Singhbhum District of Jharkhand on November 1, reports NDTV. Superintendent of Police (SP), Ashutosh Shekhar directed SFs to launch a search operation in the forest foothill in Rengdra after receiving information that Maoists have planted IEDs in the area to target SF personnel engaged in anti-Maoist operation. In course of search operation, the SF personnel recovered the eight IEDs planted in the Rengdra forest foothill, about 140 kilometers from Ranchi. The Bomb Disposal Squad (BDS) defused the IEDs, each weighing 1.5 kilograms to 2 kilograms, SP, Shekhar added.

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