Raipur: Two Maoist arms dumps, yielding huge caches of weapons, ammunition and explosives including a Chinese hand grenade, were recovered by the security personnel in the forests of Bijapur district under south Bastar in Chhattisgarh, police said on Tuesday.
This was the fourth recovery of Maoists’ arms dumps in the past 12 days in the district, a police officer said.
The latest recovery was made during a search and demining operation by the security personnel in the Lanka Pahadi forest under Bedre police station in the district, police said.
The recovered materials include one self loading rifle (SLR), one INSAS rifle, one .315-bore gun, two numbers of barrel grenade launchers (BGLs), 17 BGL shells, one Chinese hand grenade, 49 rounds of SLR and four SLR magazines.
On September 20, an AK-47, a .315-bore weapon, a pistol and other firearms and ammunition and explosives were recovered from the forest in Bhairamgarh area in the district.
Huge cache of arms, ammunition and explosives were recovered in a number of Maoist arms dumps in the forests of the district on September ten and September 16, police said.
Security have of late launched a massive de-mining operation in the forests of Bastar after the tribal region was declared free of armed Naxal activities on March 31 this year.
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