Eight District Reserve Guard (DRG) jawans and a driver were killed following Naxals blew up their vehicle using an improvised explosive device (IED) in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district. The blast occurred on the Bedre-Kutru Road in the district. The security personnel were returning from an operation when the incident happened.
Inspector General of Police (IGP) Bastar said, “The security personnel were returning from a joint operation of Dantewada, Narayanpur, and Bijapur when, at around 2.15 pm on January 6, unidentified Maoists detonated an IED near Ambeli village in the Kutru police station area of Bijapur district”.
The official added, “We will soon release a detailed statement on this,” the official added. This comes a day following five Naxalites were killed in an encounter with security forces in Chhattisgarh’s Bastar. The gunfight broke out on Saturday evening at a forest in south Abujhmaad along the border of Narayanpur and Dantewada districts when a joint team of security personnel was out on an anti-Naxalite operation.
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