Dumped arms by Maoists recovered by Police in Koraput

Bureau,Odishabarta

Koraput: Odisha Police on Friday said it has recovered a huge cache of arms dumped by Maoists in a forest area in Koraput district.

The recoveries were made on the intervening night of Wednesday and Thursday during an anti-Naxalite operation by a team comprising personnel of Police, District Voluntary Force and Bomb Disposal Squad in Kendaborigi reserve forest area.

“The Maoists had dumped the arms to likely retrieve those later. No arrests were made as there was no one at the time of the raid,” Koraput SP Varun Gunthapalli.

According to Police the seized arms include six guns, 50 gelatin sticks, 3 kg iron splinters and three Tiffin bombs.

Notably,in an another incident in Malkangiri district, BSF jawans recovered arms hidden underneath a stone slab in Pipilipadar forest in ‘Swabhiman Anchal’, a police officer said.

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