A CRPF personnel was killed on Tuesday and two other troopers injured in bomb blasts triggered by Maoists in Chhattisgarh's restive Sukma district. "While a sub inspector was killed and a head constable injured in the explosion in Chintalnar Police Station area, a constable was critically injured in the blast in Maraiguda police station limits," according to a CRPF official.
A team of CRPF’s 74th battalion was out on an area domination exercise between Burkapal police camp and Chintalnar early this morning, he said.
When security forces were cordoning off a patch near Gargarmetta, two personnel inadvertently stepped over a pressure IED (improvised explosive device), concealed beneath the ground, triggering the blast which left Sub Inspector BS Bist and head constable Sudhakar, belonging to 74th battalion, injured, the official stated.
After the incident, reinforcement was rushed to the spot to retrieve the injured personnel, he said.
"Bist succumbed to injuries while being evacuated," the official said, adding Sudhakar was airlifted to Jagdalpur for treatment and his condition was said to be out of danger. Few hours after this incident, a jawan of CRPF’s 217th came under the impact of pressure bomb blast at around 10.45 am during a 'road security operation' in Maraiguda police station area, he said.
The injured was identified as constable Prabhakar Yadav, deputed as a sniffer dog handler, in the squad, he added.
The patrolling party of the battalion was providing security to the under construction Golapalli-Maraiguda road. When they reached near Gangler rivulet, Yadav accidentally stepped over the pressure IED connection leading to the blast which left him critically injured, the official said.
Yadav was immediately shifted to Bhadrachalam (in Telangana), close to Maraiguda, by road from where he was being airlifted to Hyderabad keeping in view his serious condition, the official added.