An improvised explosive device (IED) blast in the Saranda forest of Jharkhand’s West Singhbhum district on Friday evening has injured security personnel conducting an anti-Maoist operation, police said.

The blast comes at a time when security has been tightened following the banned CPI (Maoist)’s announcement of “Resistance Week” from October 8 to 14.

Police could not confirm the exact number of security personnel injured and said full details would emerge only after everyone from the site of the explosion is evacuated. According to sources, an inspector of the CRPF’s 60th Battalion is among the injured.

Chaibasa SP Amit Renu said, “An IED blast has taken place, and we are in the process of moving the injured to a safe location and then to the hospital. One person has already been moved

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