IED event in Odisha, Nuapada area, India on Fri 1st November 2024

On November 1, Odisha Police reportedly busted a Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) camp at a forest area in Nuapada District of Odisha and seized 500 electric detonators and other incriminating articles from the spot, reports The New Indian Express. Acting on a tip-off on the movement of the Maoists, a combing operation was launched involving two Special Operations Group (SOG) teams in Patdhara and Sunabeda Reserve Forests. On November 1, an SOG team spotted a Maoist camp and conducted a raid. Sources said the Maoists possibly fled before the security personnel arrived. Police recovered approximately 500 electric detonators, five reels of safety fuse, five improvised IED switches, two SBGL rounds (decomposed), one gelatin stick (decomposed), various Naxalite [Left Wing extremism, LWE] literature, and other materials from the camp, which was set up in a dense forest near Bhaismundi village. The recovery suggests the site served as a temporary hideout of CPI-Maoist cadres.