Maoist camp demolished

Security personnel demolished a temporary Maoist camp and recovered a bomb in Sarada forest in West Singhbhum district, where extremists are active.

The explosive weighing 40 kgs was planted by Maoists yesterday on the approach road to target security personnel who, however, entered the forest from the opposite direction, Surendra Kumar Jha, SDPO, Chakradharpur, said today.

He said that a temporary camp set up by the extremists was destroyed and the explosive defused.