India News | Country-made Guns, IEDs Found in Malkangiri Forest

Malkangiri (Odisha), Oct 21 (PTI) The Odisha Police on Friday said it has seized country-made guns and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) belonging to Maoists at a forest in Malkangiri district.

Acting on inputs, an intensive search at the Tulsi reserve forest in Mathili police station area near the Chhattisgarh border was started, it said.

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Early in the morning, police uncovered a major "Maoist dump" near the jungle at Katwapadar village in Kartanpalli panchayat.

Two country-made guns and six IEDs were recovered and it is suspected that these were kept for targeting civilians and security forces, police said.

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Police suspect that the ammunition belonged to the Dandakaranya Special Zonal Committee of the CPI(Maoist).

Further combing and search operations were going on in the area, police said.

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