Three CRPF personnel were injured in an IED blast triggered by Maoists in Jharkhand's West Singhbhum district on Thursday, PTI reported. After the incident, a search operation was launched and 51 IEDs were recovered at a forest near Meralgada village in Goilkera police station area, said Superintendent of Police Ashutosh Shekhar.
A bomb disposal squad was rushed to the spot and the explosives were defused, the SP said.
Earlier in the day, acting on a tip-off that Maoist leaders were having a meeting at the forest, security forces launched a search operation during which an IED exploded.
Three CRPF jawans of the 60th battalion -- Rakesh Pathak, BD Anal and Pankaj Yadav -- were injured in the explosion and were airlifted to a hospital in Ranchi.
SP Shekhar said the conditions of the three jawans were stable.