Security personnel recovered three powerful Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) during an anti-Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) operation launched in the Jimki Ikir village under Tonto Police Station limits in West Singhbhum District of Jharkhand on April 24, reports NDTV. "The security personnel were carrying out an intensified operation jointly in various villages within the limits of Goilkera and Tonto police stations today when they detected three IEDs planted by banned CPI (Maoists) to target them in a forest near Jimki Ikir village within the limits of the Tonto police station," Superintendent of Police (SP) Ashutosh Shekhar, said. The IEDs, weighing five kilograms each, were destroyed on the spot by the Bomb Disposal Squad (BDS). Besides, security personnel also recovered 125 kilograms of rice, packets of salt, mustard oil, chilly and turmeric powder.