West Singhbhum, June 30 (ANI): In a joint operation, police and security forces destroyed three naxal camps and recovered a huge cache of arms and explosives at the Saranda forest in West Singhbhum.
Seventeen suspected Naxalites were also detained in an anti-Maoist operation that ended yesterday.
The three camps were being run led by senior leaders of Eastern Regional Bureau (ERB) of the CPI (Maoist) deep in the forest located around 25km off Chota Nagra police station of West Singhbhum.
Large bags containing Naxalite literature that included jungle warfare training booklets were also found in the camps.
The three-day exercise was launched in Saranda on June 26 midnight.
The operation team comprised personnel from CoBRA battalions, district police and Jharkhand Armed Police. (ANI)
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