2 IEDs unearthed in Chhattisgarhs Bijapur district

Security forces have recovered two improvised explosive devices (IEDs), planted by Naxals, from separate places in Chhattisgarh's Bijapur district today, police said.
While an explosive weighing five kg was unearthed from Basaguda police station area, another of two kg was recovered from Gangaloor police station limits, a local police official told PTI.
A joint team of CRPFs 85th battalion and District Force while carrying out an area domination operation on Bijapur-Gangaloor road spotted the IED connection near a government high school in Tondapara village, around 450 kms away from here, he said.
Later, the low intensity explosive, packed in a small steel container, hidden beneath the earth on a dirt track was detected there, he said.

In another incident, a joint team of CRPF's 168th battalion and local police unearthed the 5kg explosive from a dirt track between Sarkeguda and New Tarrem where a security forces camp is located, he added.
The explosives were defused by the bomb disposal squads, he added.