A CRPF jawan was killed and three others injured when an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) planted by Maoists went off in insurgency-hit Sukma district, police said here on Friday.
The blast occurred in the jungles near Murliguda village when a patrol party of 217th battalion CRPF had started from their camp to provide security cover for an under construction road between Murliguda and Banda under Konta police station limits, Superintendent of Police (SP), Sukma, D Shravan informed.
According to the police, the team had started from Murliguda camp around 9 am. The team would have reached just about 500 meters away from the camp when one of the personnel stepped over an IED planted by Naxals triggering the blast, the SP said.
S Niwas and Prabhat Tripathi both Deputy Commandants, and Deputy Constable Shrinivash were injured in the blast, he said.
Soon after the incident, the injured and the Head Constable were evacuated to Bhadrachalam where the critically injured Head Constable Ranga Raghvan died while undergoing treatment in the hospital. later the injured officers were airlifted to Hyderabad for further treatment, Shravan said.