Reds steal 7k detonators in West S’bhum: Cops

Jamshedpur: CPI (Maoist) guerillas on Friday stole a huge cache of detonators from the storeroom of a private company in the forest of Parambaljori, Bada Jamda in rebel-hit West Singhbhum district, the Kiriburu police said.
West Singhbhum SP Ashutosh Shekhar said members of a Maoist squad broke into the storehouse around 1 am and stole 7,000 detonators stored in wooden boxes. “According to our preliminary investigation, the extremists have stolen only the detonators,” the SP said.
The private company, D K Ghosh Enterprises, supplies detonators and related explosives to mining firms in Kiriburu and surrounding mining areas of the district and Odisha. Sources said private security guards posted at the storehouse at the time of the incident are being questioned.
“An investigation is going on and company officials have been asked to identify other storerooms of the company,” Shekhar added.
Of late, improvised explosive devices (IED) have become a serious issue for the security forces in the district. To prevent the security forces from long-range patrolling, searches and combing operations in the Saranda forest, pressure-triggered IEDs have been planted by the Maoists and its breakaway faction, PLFI.