2 IED bombs recovered in Chhaittisgarh ahead of Rajnath's visit
May 30, 2015  10:50
Ahead of Home Minister Rajnath Singh's visit to Chhaittisgarh today, security forces have recovered two powerful tiffin bombs from Naxal-hit Sukma district's Dornapal region.

"The explosives, planted by Naxals, were recovered by a joint team of security personnel near Misma village on Sukma-Dornapal route under the Dornapal police station limits yesterday," Sukma sub-divisional officer of police, Prafulla Kispotta, said.

The joint party of the Central Reserve Police Force and district force was patrolling Sukma-Dornpal route when they found two tiffins containing IEDs, weighing 10 kg each, placed beneath the ground near Misma, located nearly 450 km away from Raipur, he said.

The IEDs were immediately destroyed by the bomb disposal squad at the spot, the SDOP said.

The home minister will arrive at Raipur this afternoon on two-day tour of the state where he is expected take part in a number of programmes in the capital and Bastar division.

Singh will inaugurate the new police headquarters building at Naya Raipur today, following which he will convene a unified command meeting to chalk out strategies to deal with Maoist menace.
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