Two IEDs defused in Aurangabad's Dhibra area

Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) recovered and defused two improvised explosive devices in Aurangabad's Dhibra area. Polling for the first phase of Bihar Elections is underway.

Aurangabad (Bihar): Two Improvised explosive devices were recovered and defused by Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) in Aurangabad's Dhibra area on Wednesday.

The IED placed under a culvert were recovered on time by the police, Dhibra police station in-charge Pramod Kumar said.

Kumar said prima facie it could be the Maoists who may have planned to execute a big incident. A probe is underway.

"We had received inputs yesterday night. However, we have detected the IEDs in time and defused them", said sub-divisional police officer of Aurangabad, Anup Kumar.

Earlier on Tuesday, two IEDs placed by the Maoists were also recovered in Imamganj area of Gaya district that were defused later by the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF). Thereafter, an alert was sounded in all Maoist-affected areas.

Polling for the first phase of Bihar Elections is underway.

Voting began on 71 constituencies across 16 districts in the first phase of the Bihar Assembly election on Wednesday at 7 am.

As many as 1,066 candidates are in the fray including 42 from Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), 35 from Janata Dal (United), 29 from BJP, 21 from Congress and 8 from Left parties.

The campaigning for the first phase of the high-decibel Bihar Assembly Elections ended on October 26 evening.

(Added inputs from agencies)