Sukma, May 5 (PTI) Two Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) planted by Naxalites to target security forces were recovered and defused on Saturday in Sukma district in Chhattisgarh, police said.

A joint team comprising jawans of Special Task Force, CoBRA's 206 battalion, and the district police force recovered the two IEDs, each weighing 5 kg, near the Murakraj Konda hills in the Chintagufa police station area this morning, a police officer said.

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The explosives were destroyed by the Bomb Disposal Squad (BDS), he said.

A day earlier, an IED packed in a steel container, was unearthed by police in a forest in Narayanpur district of the state, an official had said.

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In the biggest strike on security forces in Chhattisgarh in the last two years, Naxalites on April 26 blew up a vehicle carrying jawans in Dantewada district, leaving ten police personnel and a driver dead. The blast was carried out using an IED.

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