India: Security forces seize huge explosive cache, destroy pressure cooker IEDs in Dantewada


A major anti-Naxal operation in Chhattisgarh’s Dantewada district has dealt another blow to Maoist networks, with security forces recovering a large cache of explosives, weapons-related materials and insurgent equipment while successfully neutralising multiple improvised explosive devices hidden deep inside a forested zone.

The operation prevented a potential security threat and highlighted the continued focus on dismantling Naxal infrastructure across the Bastar region through intelligence-based field operations.

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Source: The Statesman News


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