Soldiers were on the way to their camp after escorting a polling party
An injured CRPF jawan is shifted to a hospital in Raipur on Wednesday after a Naxal attack in Sukma district of Chhattisgarh -DC
Raipur: Maoists on Wednesday struck in Chhattisgarh’s Bastar region ahead of April 10 polls, killing three Cobra commandos and injuring seven other security personnel in two separate incidents in the Bastar Lok Sabha constituency.
According to the police, around 100 armed Naxals ambushed a team of Cobra commandos, a specialised anti-Naxal force of the CRPF, near Chintagufa in south Bastar district of Sukma when they were on their way back to their camp after escorting a polling party to a remote village of Buraklanka.
Three Cobra personnel were killed and three others injured in the encounter that followed the Maoist ambush. The incident occurred at around 10.30 on Wedn-esday morning. The injured were airlifted to a hospital in Jagdalpur.
“The Cobra personnel, who were returning after escorting a polling party to a booth, were ambushed by the Naxals near Chintagufa leading to killing of 3 commandos and injuries to three others,” Bastar inspector general of police Arun Dev Gautam said.
In another incident, four CRPF jawans were injured, two of them grievously, when they stepped on a pressure bomb on Gangalur road in south Bastar district of Bijapur.
The CRPF team was on road opening operation ahead of April 10 Lok Sabha elections in Bastar (ST) parliamentary constituency.
Meanwhile, all the 1,794 polling booths in the LS constituency have been categorised as “critical”. As many as 238 polling booths in interior Bastar have been shifted to other places.
Six helicopters and two air ambulances have been pressed into service to transport and evacuate both polling and security personnel during elections in the constituency.
( Source : dc correspondent )
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