A Maoist “ordnance factory” engaged in manufacturing weapons and explosives to target security forces has been destroyed in Chhattisgarh’s Sukma district, a police official said on Saturday.

Acting on intelligence inputs, a joint team of Sukma District Force and 203rd battalion of CoBRA (Commando Battalion for Resolute Action), an elite unit of CRPF, located the arms and explosives manufacturing unit of the outlawed Communist Party of India (Maoist) on a forested hill near Koimenta village on Friday, he said.

The seized materials include one vertical milling machine, two BGL (barrel grenade

launcher), 12 empty BGL shells, 94 BGL heads, one hand grinder machine, six wooden rifle butts, one trigger mechanism (for muzzle-loader), one trigger mechanism with pistol grip, four solar batteries

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