![Security personnel carring injured person at a hospital after an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) Blast triggered by Maoist in the dense forest of Chaibasa in West Singhbhum district of Jharkhand on the wee hours in Ranchi on Saturday. (UNI) Security personnel carring injured person at a hospital after an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) Blast triggered by Maoist in the dense forest of Chaibasa in West Singhbhum district of Jharkhand on the wee hours in Ranchi on Saturday. (UNI)](https://cdndailyexcelsior.b-cdn.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/6-4.jpg)
CHAIBASA (Jharkhand), Dec 10:
An Inspector of Cobra battalion was injured on Saturday after an improvised explosive device (IED) went off during an anti-Maoist operation in a forest of Jharkhand’s West Singhbhum district, police said. The incident occurred in the forest under the Tonto Police Station limits when a joint team of CRPF, Cobra, Jharkhand Jaguar and district armed police personnel was conducting the operation, DIG (Kolhan) Ajay Linda said.
“The Cobra battalion Inspector has a splinter injury. The anti-Maoist operation is still on,” he said. Several IEDs planted by members of banned CPI (Maoist) outfit were recovered from a forest under Goilkera Police Station limits, he added. (PTI)