Nuapada: A team of security personnel from the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) busted a Maoist camp Friday morning and recovered a huge cache of firearms including explosives from Patadaraha reserve forest near Kandenjharia village in Nuapada district.
According to an official of the 216 CRPF battalion the camp was busted during a combing operation carried out by the para-military forces at Patadaraha forest. However, the Maoists managed to flee.
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The security personnel recovered five guns along with gelatin sticks, detonator and a number of other a explosive devices from the camp, the official informed.
The CRPF team got information from a reliable source that some Maoists have camped inside the forest. So they launched a search and in the process busted the camp.
PNN