Chhattisgarh: BJP MLA, 4 security men killed in Naxal attack, CM calls an emergency meeting
Elections | April 10, 2019 8:56 ISTChhattisgarh: BJP MLA, 4 security men killed in Naxal attack, CM calls an emergency meeting
Chhattisgarh: BJP MLA, 4 security men killed in Naxal attack, CM calls an emergency meeting
Dantewada falls in the Bastar Lok Sabha seat which will go to polls in the first phase on Thursday.
Bhima Mandavi was a rising tribal leader who had been elected to the state assembly thrice.
CRPF and district police are at the spot to take stock of the situation.
The explosion took place when the troops of 206 CoBRA and DRG were returning to their base camp in Chintagupha.
According to reports, the BSF jawans were returning from election duty when the rebels ambushed them.
The exchange of fire took place at a forest in Bedre area when a team of the STF was out on anti-Naxal operation, a senior police official told PTI.
While Chhattisgarh has traditionally seen a straight fight between the BJP and the Congress, this time a third front comprising Ajit Jogi's Janata Congress Chhattisgarh (J), Mayawati's BSP and the CPI is also in the fray.
Two other CISF jawans suffered severe injuries in this blast. They have been rushed to the nearby Apollo Hospital.
The number of on-ground security personnel has been kept high, considering the threat perception in 18 constituencies that go to polls in the first phase, officials said.
Doordarshan lighting assistant live reporting during naxal attack in Dantewada
In a Naxal attack in poll-bound Chhattisgarh's Dantewada district, two police personnel and a Doordarshan cameraman were killed on Tuesday, cops said.
Doordarshan cameraman killed in naxal attack in Dantewada
Four CRPF personnel martyred when the bullet proof vehicle they were travelling in came under attack from alleged Maoists in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district on Saturday
The Jharkhand Jaguar Force is a special unit of the state police.
The ultras also looted the weapons of the police personnel, he said, adding that reinforcement was rushed to the spot soon after the incident.
Naxals targeted a bus ferrying nearly 30 jawans with an improvised explosive device (IED) in Chhattisgarh's Bijapur, leaving two of them dead and five injured, the second attack today ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to the district on Saturday.
The incident took place around 12.30 pm when the Maoists blew up an anti-landmine vehicle of CRPF’s 212 Battalion along the 5-km under-construction Kistaram-Palodi road by using an over 50 kg Improvised Explosive Device (IED).
The Centre has asked the security forces to focus counter-offensive operations on “highvalue targets”, including south Bastar divisional commander Raghu and commander of the first battalion of People's Liberation Guerrilla Army (PLGA) Hidma
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