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A day after suspected Maoists allegedly looted four tonnes of explosives from a truck in K. Balang area of Sundargarh district, police have ramped up operations and intensified their response following intelligence inputs that Naxals based in Jharkhand may have carried out the heist.

According to reports, security officials have sealed the Odisha-Jharkhand border and launched a large-scale combing operation in the dense forests around the interstate boundary. As of the latest reports, this search-and-scan operation was still underway.

On Wednesday, Odisha DGP YB Khurania chaired a high-level strategy meeting at the Rourkela SP of...