
Maoist dump unearthed in forest areas
The Hindu
Explosives, revolutionary literature recovered
A joint team of police and the personnel of the bomb disposal squad on Saturday unearthed a Maoist dump and recovered a cache of explosives, portable devices and other material from Kalvapalli forest area in Tadwai mandal of Mulugu district.
Acting on a tip-off, the joint team carried out a search operation in the forest area along the outer periphery of Kalvapalli in the early hours of Saturday, police said.
The team found 25 each gelatin sticks and detonators, a large bundle of cloth used to prepare “red flags”, a small bundle of wire, a flash camera, pen drive, Bluetooth speaker, earphones, power bank, battery charger, revolutionary literature and documents pertaining to the resolutions passed at various meetings of the CPI (Maoist) including the Dandakaranya special zone accounts sheets for 2015 and 2016.

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