Chhattisgarh Maoist Attack: DRG Vehicle Was on Radar of Attackers, Pressure Bomb Used

In an unlucky incident, 10 policemen and a driver have been killed when their automobile was blown up by an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) blast in Chhattisgarh’s Dantewada district on Wednesday. The blast occurred below the Aranpur police station space round 1 pm when a crew of the District Reserve Guard was returning from an anti-Maoist operation that was launched after intelligence inputs.

DRG personnel are largely recruited by the Chhattisgarh Police from the native tribal inhabitants and educated to fight Maoists.

Here are some key factors:

• Sources advised News18 that no intelligence was gathered to sanitise the route when the DRG crew was leaving for the headquarters.
• It is learnt the DRG automobile was already on the radar of the Naxals, who have been monitoring the route and motion of the convoy. The social gathering additionally didn’t change the route and used the identical means which is one other lapse on the stage of planning.
• A stress bomb was used to assault the patrolling social gathering in Dantewada, in keeping with sources.
• A crew from the National Security Guard (NSG) bomb information centre is more likely to go to Chhattisgarh.
• Following the assault, a combing operation was quickly launched by paramilitary personnel and native police in Dantewada.
• Speaking to the information company ANI, Chhattisgarh Home Minister Tamradhwaj Sahu stated that patrolling social gathering was returning after a search operation. He added that the officers had obtained a secret details about presence of Naxals within the space.
• Inspector General of Police (Bastar Range) Sundarraj P stated the our bodies of all deceased are being evacuated from the spot and an enormous search operation is launched to nab the perpetrators.
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi has strongly condemned the Naxal assault and paid tributes to these killed within the incident. Taking to Twitter, he stated, “Strongly condemn the assault on the Chhattisgarh police in Dantewada. I pay my tributes to the courageous personnel we misplaced within the assault. Their sacrifice will all the time be remembered. My condolences to the bereaved households.”

• Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel told ANI, “Dantewada incident is heart-rending. My condolences to their families. Their sacrifice won’t go to waste. Pressure is being created on Naxals, so they did this cowardice. Naxalism will be uprooted. I spoke with Home Minister Amit Shah and Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge.”
• TV visuals and pictures from the blast website confirmed an enormous crater, nearly 10-feet deep, splitting the street. The automobile was fully destroyed within the assault whereas our bodies lined with plastic sheets have been additionally seen within the video/photographs.

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