Jamshedpur: Seraikela-Kharsawan district police on Tuesday recovered 12 live IEDs from the forest area in Dalbhanga outpost under Nimdih police station limits. The explosives, each weighing 1.5 kg, were defused in a controlled way by the bomb disposal squad of the district police at the site. The district police said that combing operation of the hilly forest in Dalbhanga was carried out on receiving intelligence about Maoists concealing the explosives at the site.