A police jawan injured in an encounter with Naxals in Chhattisgarh's Sukma district succumbed to injuries today, taking the death toll of security personnel killed in the operation to three.
A police jawan injured in an encounter with Naxals in Chhattisgarh's Sukma district succumbed to injuries today, taking the death toll of security personnel killed in the operation to three.
Two district reserve guard (DRG) jawans were earlier killed and as many others sustained injuries in the gun-battle in Sukma's Chintagufa area.
Four separate encounters between Naxalites and police have been reported in the state since yesterday, in which three security men have been killed and seven injured, including a sub-inspector.
Two Naxals were also gunned down in these face-offs.
While two encounters took place in Sukma yesterday, as many others occurred in Bijapur, including one this morning.
A composite squad of the Special Task Force (STF), the DRG, the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and its elite unit-CoBRA (Commando Battalion for Resolute Action) was yesterday out on the operation based on inputs about the location of Maoist hideouts in the interiors of Chintagufa, around 500 kms away from here.
When the security men were advancing through the forest of Dondamarka, a Maoist den, armed Naxalites opened fire on them, leading to a gun-battle.
Five STF personnel sustained bullet injuries, three of them critically, in the face-off.
Some personnel of the patrolling team were on their way back to the base when they again came under heavy fire from the ultras near Durma village, around 17 kms deep inside forest from Chintagufa.
Two DRG jawans were killed and as many others sustained injuries in the gun-battle.
"Two DRG jawans were initially killed and as many others injured in the incident. Later, one of the injured succumbed while being retrieved from the forest," Deputy Inspector General of Police (Dantewada range) Sundarraj P told
(This article has not been edited by DNA's editorial team and is auto-generated from an agency feed.)
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