Three persons, including a Commandant of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), were injured after a pressure mine went-off during a de-mining exercise in the insurgency hit Bijapur district. The injured have been shifted to Raipur, informed Bijapur Superintendent of Police (SP) Kl Dhruv on Monday. The personnel of CRPF’s elite battalion CoBRA were among the injured persons. The incident occurred in Rajpenta forests falling in limits of Basaguda police station, added Dhruv.
Commandant Harshwardhan Singh, Sub Inspector Abhishek and Constable Roop Singh, were among the injured, he said. According to Dhruv, acting on inputs about IEDs planted by ultras in the region, CoBRA launched the de-mining exercise and detected some IEDs. After detecting the IEDs, Bomb Disposal Squad (BDS) personnel accompanied by troopers were performing the task to defuse bombs. They had defused 7 to 8 bombs when one of the jawans stepped upon a mine which was exposed resulting in its explosion. The injured personnel were airlifted to Raipur for better treatment, the SP informed.