Dantewada blast: Safely detonated from 200-300 metres, command or wired IED is the Naxals’ most common attack strategy, one that has been replicated by terrorists in Kashmir as well. The foxhole mechanism of burying the explosives makes them near undetectable, as in the case of the recent Dantewada blast
The development comes days after 10 personnel of the District Reserve Guards (DRG) were killed in an ambush attack triggered by the Naxalites in Chhattisgarh's Dantewada.
Amid mammoth gathering and the sound of the slogan 'Shaheed Jawan Amar Rahe', residents of village Kasoli in Dantewada district bid an emotional adieu to their hero Lakhmu Markam, who sacrificed his life in the line of duty.
The initial intelligence, based on which the Arhanpur operation was launched, officials said, was about Jagdish's presence in the area. It is now being suspected that Maoists may have deliberately shared wrong leads