A 60-year-old tribal man was killed after a landmine exploded on Karreguttalu hillocks in Telangana’s Mulugu district on Wednesday evening, police said.
The others escaped unhurt. The other tribal men immediately covered Nageshwar Rao’s wounds with clothes and carried him on a makeshift stretcher made from bamboo sticks. The deceased, Madakam Nageswara Rao of Nugur village in Venkatapuram mandal, was collecting bamboo in the forest with five other tribal villagers when he allegedly stepped on an improvised explosive device (IED) at Bedemgutta, about 10 km from their village, police said.
“He, along with five other tribal villagers, had gone into the forests on Karreguttalu hillocks to collect bamboo,” a police officer from Venkatapuram said. “On getting the information, we rushed to the village and launched a probe into the incident,” the police official said, adding that the security forces were trying to find out whether there were any other landmines planted along the route the tribal men travelled. They reached the village on Thursday morning and informed the police.
