Two security personnel were injured in separate Naxal-related incidents in Chhattisgarh’s Dantewada district on Sunday.
Police source said one CRPF jawan was injured in an encounter with Maoists while a DRG jawan sustained injuries in an improvised bomb blast, triggered by Naxals.
Both the incidents occurred in the forests of Aranpur police station limits of restive Dantewada district. Separate teams of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), District Reserve Guard (DRG) and Special Task Force (STF) were out on anti-Maoist operations in the interiors of Aranpur, a police official informed.
The DRG jawan from one of the patrolling teams came under the impact of explosion triggered by Naxals in the forest that left him injured. While in another incident, a gun-battle broke out between security forces and Naxals which injured a paramilitary trooper, sources added. Reinforcement was rushed to the spots and the injured were shifted to the hospital in Aranapur.