Police personnel injured in IED blast by Naxals in Chhattisgarh
The Hindu
The incident took place around 8.30 a.m. when a joint team of various security forces was out on a road security operation near Bodli camp, Dantewada’s Superintendent of Police Abshishek Pallava said.
An assistant constable of the District Reserve Guard (DRG) was injured on December 21 when Naxals denoted an improvised explosive device (IED) in Chhattisgarh’s Dantewada district, a police official said.
The incident took place around 8.30 a.m. when a joint team of various security forces was out on a road security operation near Bodli camp, located over 400km from the State capital Raipur, Dantewada’s Superintendent of Police Abshishek Pallava said.
A team of personnel belonging to the DRG, the Special Task Force (STF) and the Chhattisgarh Armed Force (CAF) had launched the operation on a hypersensitive patch from Bodli towards Kariametta village, he said.
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