6 killed, 13 injured in Chhattisgarh blast

RAIPUR: Five security personnel and a civilian were killed and 13 injured in an improvised explosive device blast triggered by naxalites in Chhattisgarh's Bijapur district, police sources said.

An Assistant Commandant, a Platoon Commander and a jawan of Nagaland Armed Force and an assistant police sub inspector besides a special police officer of the state and a civilian were killed in the blast, police sources said.

Thirteen persons, ten of them civilians and three policemen, were injured, four of them seriously, they said.

The incident occurred between Bodli and Bhairamgarh villages on a National Highway that connects Chhattisgarh with Andhra Pradesh, about 425 km from the state capital, when a joint police party of Naga Armed Forces and Chhattisgarh Police were on a search operation, the sources said.