The IED was recovered by the joint team of CoBRA and CRPF during an anti-naxal drive-area domination campaign and was planted to cause harm to the security forces.
A Naxalite was killed in an encounter with the joint security team of Dhamtari and Gariaband districts in the jungles of Ekkawari under Borai police station in Dhamtari district on Sunday, according to an official.
According to the Superintendent of Police, Shalabh Kumar Sinha, in a joint operation of the District Reserve Guard (DRG) and Border Security Force (BSF), three Naxals were arrested, out of which two of them carry a reward of Rs eight lakhs each on their arrest.
"An IED weighing about 5 kilograms was recovered from the area, and it was destroyed on the spot by following the security standards. All the soldiers are safe. Searching is going on in the area", officials said.
An encounter broke out between a joint party of Indo-Tibetan Border Police and District Reserve Guard and Naxals in the forest area of Chote Burgum in Chhattisgarh's Narayanpur district on Sunday, officials said.
The Chhattisgarh Police on Wednesday said that they averted a major untoward incident and safely recovered an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) in insurgency-hit Dantewada district.
Two Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) concealed inside tiffin boxes, planted by Naxals, were defused by the security forces in Chhattisgarh's Narayanpur district, police said on Monday.
Narayanpur (Chhattisgarh) [India], October 17 (ANI): District Reserve Guard (DRG) recovered a huge amount of ammunition and Naxal-related things after a clash broke out between the security forces and the Naxals on Sunday.
Rajnandgaon (Chhattisgarh) [India], May 15 (ANI): Security forces on Sunday recovered a Naxal dump including a claymore mine and stores in a forest area in Chhattisgarh's Rajnandgaon region, informed the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP).
Batrali (Chhattisgarh) [India], Feb 18 (ANI): An IED planted by Naxals was on Tuesday defused by the security forces on-road between Batrali and Bawnimari village in Chhattisgarh.
New Delhi (India), Dec 13 (ANI): Security agencies are engaged in gathering intelligence to find out the successor of Ravula Srinivas alias Ramanna, the central committee member of Naxal and secretary of Dandkarenya Special Zonal Committee (DKSZC) who died recently.