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- A 60-year-old tribal man, Madakam Nageswara Rao of Nugur village in Telangana's Mulugu district, died after stepping on an IED while collecting bamboo on the Karreguttalu hillocks near the Chhattisgarh border.
- He was with five other villagers who escaped unhurt and carried him back to the village on a makeshift stretcher.
- Police are probing the incident and searching for other landmines along the route.
- The hillocks, once Maoist strongholds, have been reopened to the public, but several previous landmine blasts there have caused deaths and injuries since mid-2025.
What to watch next
- Whether police find and clear additional landmines along the routes used by villagers
- Findings of the police probe into who planted the IED
- Any further safety measures or access restrictions on the hillocks given the recent string of blasts
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Named India · Karreguttalu · Madakam Nageswara Rao · Mulugu · Communist Party of India (Maoist) · Telangana Police
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