RAIPUR: A group of security personnel had a close shave on Thursday as Maoists detonated a powerful improvised explosive device blast on a densely-forested route in Chhattisgarh’s insurgency-hit Bijapur district, police said. No one was injured in the explosion. The rebels exploded the device between Tarrem-Sarkeguda when a joint team of CRPF and its elite unit COBRA was patrolling the region.

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