Security forces today recovered three powerful improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and arrested two rebels in separate incidents in Chhattisgarh's insurgency-affected Bijapur district, police said.
The CRPF's 168th battalion and local police found the IEDs, weighing 5 kg each, buried under a dirt track between Basaguda and Dharmapur villages, a local police official said.
The devices had been made using steel tiffins, he said, adding that the bomb disposal squad immediately defused them.
Two alleged Naxals, identified as Punem Somlu (34) and Hapka Jila (47), were arrested by a joint team of the CRPF's 85th battalion and local police from their native village Kakekorma, the official said.
The two were allegedly involved in torching of vehicles engaged in road construction near Pamalwaya Kalighati on Bijapur-Gangalor road last month, the police offcial said.
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