A fierce gunfight brokeout between safety personnel and Naxals at a forest in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district on Saturday wherein 5 jawans had been killed whereas a couple of others injured.
According to media stories, the trade of fireside with Naxals in jungles close to Tarrem continued for about three hours in the present day. Chhattisgarh DGP DM Awasthi reportedly stated that personnel belonging to the CRPF’s elite Commando Battalion for Resolute Action unit (CoBRA), the District Reserve Guard (DRG) and the Special Task Force (STF) had been concerned within the operation.
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Besides safety personnel, some Maoists are additionally suspected to have been killed in the course of the gun struggle.
News company ANI quoted DIG (Naxal Operations) OP Pal saying, “five jawans died and 12 others injured in the 3-hour-long encounter with Naxals at Sukma-Bijapur border in Sukma district. Body of a woman Naxal has been found at the encounter site.”
Meanwhile, an emergency assembly of DGP DM Awasthi, Special DG (Anti-Naxal Operations) Ashoke Juneja and different officers is underway in Raipur over the encounter between the safety forces and Naxals in Bijapur.
The incident has come ten days after 5 DRG personnel had been killed when Naxals blew up a bus carrying the safety personnel with an IED in Narayanpur district on March 23. In one other incident, a Zila Panchayat member in Bijapur district was allegedly killed by Naxals final month.
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