IED event in Andhra Pradesh, Chintoor Agency in East Godavari District area, India on Fri 8th October 2021

Personnel of the Anti-Naxal Squad (ANS) and Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) unearthed at least 10 booby traps allegedly laid by cadres of the Community Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) in the Mallampeta forest cover on the Andhra Pradesh-Chhattisgarh border in Chintoor Agency in East Godavari District of Andhra Pradesh on October 8, reports The Hindu. The spot where the traps were found shares a border with Sukma district of Chhattisgarh, and is said to be the biggest booby trap laid by the Maoists on the tri-State border of Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, and Chhattisgarh in recent years. East Godavari, Superintendent of Police (SP), M. Ravindranath Babu, said, “The booby trap is believed to be the traditional technique of Gutti Koya tribe of Chhattisgarh. A major tragedy has been averted with their detection.” The Maoists had laid the booby traps by digging trenches, in which they reportedly planted sharp bamboo arrows and covered them with leaves. The security forces found a few hundred sharp bamboo arrows in the traps.|