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By Satyajeet Kumar: Two people, including a seven-year-old child, and his father were injured in an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) blast in Jharkhand’s West Singhbhum district on Friday. The police said the IEDs were planted by naxals in Rengrahatu under Tonto police station limits.
Confirming the incident, Superintendent of Police Ashutosh Shekhar told India Today, “A seven-year-old child and his father were injured in an IED blast planted by naxals in West Singhbhum. The incident happened at around 4 pm today. The injured are undergoing treatment at Chaibasa Sadar hospital.”
In March, a 52-year-old man was killed while his 45-year-old wife sustained multiple injuries when an IED detonated in the Ichahatu village forest area of Goilkera police station in West Singhbhum.
On February 2, fifty-one IEDs were found in a search operation in Jharkhand’s West Singhbhum district after three para-military jawans were injured, police said.
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The IEDs, planted by banned Maoists, were recovered at a forest near Meralgada village in Goilkera police station area, Superintendent of Police Ashutosh Shekhar said. A bomb disposal squad defused the explosives at the spot.
On February 7, a CRPF jawan was injured in an IED explosion in West Singhbhum district, police said. Security forces were on an anti-Naxal operation at Hathiburu jungle in Goilkera police station area when the IED planted by Maoists exploded, injuring the CRPF jawan, they said.
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