A bomb disposal team from Korput was despatch and it found an IED in a two-litre steel container under a stone and a bunch of wire under another stone approximately 5 metres away. At around 1.30 pm, the team destroyed the IED in situ after taking due precautions. No damages to government property or injury to any person were reported, it said.
The site was about 1.5 km from Bahadurguda in neighbouring Andhra Pradesh and 7.5 km from the Company Operating Base (COB) of the BSF at Govindpalli, it added.