A jawan of 72nd Battalion of the Border Security Force (BSF) suffered critical injuries in three consecutive bomb blasts triggered by insurgents near a bridge in the district on Friday.
The injured jawan Chattarmal was among a polling party which was engaged in pre-poll work before Antagarh by-elections on Saturday, police said.The poll party was heading towards Bethiya villages through dense jungles when insurgents triggered three successive bomb blasts leaving the BSF jawan injured.
Immediately after the blast, the insurgents resorted to indiscriminate firing on the polling party to which the jawan retaliated which made the insurgents run towards the dense jungles. later, the jawan was airlifted to Raipur after primary treatment at the Bande Community Health Center.