Chhattisgarh Naxal encounter: 15 jawans lacking
Around 15 safety personnel are lacking following the encounter with Naxals in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district on Saturday. “A reinforcement party has rushed to the encounter spot. Bodies of two jawans have been recovered as of now,” Chhattisgarh Police sources stated. “23 injured have been admitted to Bijapur hospital and 7 have been admitted to a Raipur hospital,” it added.
Five safety personnel have been killed and about 10 have been injured in the encounter with Naxals in jungles close to Tarrem in Bijapur district.
“In an encounter in Bijapur, Chhattisgarh, initial reports indicate that three District Reserve Guard (DRG) and two Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) jawans have been martyred, one Naxal has also been killed, the encounter is on,” CRPF had stated.
On Saturday, Chhattisgarh Director-General of Police DM Awasthi had knowledgeable that the gunbattle broke out when a joint staff of safety forces was out on an anti-Naxal operation.
For the final 10 days, safety forces in Chhattisgarh have been getting details about the whereabouts of Madvi Hidma, a high Naxal of banned CPI (Maoist) who has been linked to main assaults together with the 2013 Jhiram Ghati killings.
Over 30 individuals together with senior leaders of the Chhattisgarh Congress have been killed in the Jhiram Ghati Naxal assault in 2013.
(With ANI inputs)
