Bhubaneswar: A man died in the Eid explosion allegedly triggered by Maois at Kiamunda under the Paphyhamal Police Station in Kandhamal Regency, four days after a journalist died in a similar explosion in the default district in 5.
The police who died as Priyrantajan Kanhr, a local resident aged 30s.
He accidentally touched with explosive, planting 200 meters from a place suspected of Maois had burned two heavy vehicles involved in road construction work on Monday night and had installed poster that was interesting for people to boycott the election of Panchayat scheduled from February 16 to 24 .
The vehicle was burned on Monday owned by a private company that carried out the construction of the road from Pheiriria to Nabada.
A senior police officer said after Maois put up a poster and a burning vehicle, the bomb-disposal team had carried out a thorough examination around it on Tuesday and had spread two IEDs.
The explosion site in Kandhamal is located about 100 km from one in Madanpur Rampur by the road where Rohit Journalists Bal Bal (47) was killed while trying to take photos of Maois poster attractive for people to boycott rural polls.
The police said the Division of Kandhamal-Law-Boudh-Nayagarh (KKBN) from the CPI-Maoist was behind the two incidents.