Lankapalli, India, April 22, 2026 (AFP) - Maoist landmine legacy haunts India

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2026-04-22

India's blood-soaked six-decade Maoist insurgency may be over, but a lethal legacy remains: hundreds of crude landmines planted by the rebels along forest tracks. For decades, Maoist fighters seeded vast stretches of central India's forests with pressure-operated improvised explosive devices (IEDs), often buried just beneath dirt roads or hidden along jungle footpaths. Rudimentary in design -- gelatin, ball bearings and metal fragments packed in......

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