A cache of explosive materials was seized from a Maoist dump in Dodla forest area of Eturunagaram mandal by a combined team of local police and personnel of the CRPF 39 (D) Battalion on Monday evening.
Acting on a tip-off, the joint team along with a bomb disposal squad carried out a search in the dense forest area near Dodla village and unearthed a Maoist dump in thick bushes in the forest terrain, police said.
It contained 10 gelatin sticks and an equal number of detonators, three claymore mines, 33 SLR live rounds, one each empty cartridges of SLR and AK-47 rifles, one battery, 100-metre electric wire bundle and two kg nails.
