A trooper of District Police deployed for the security of a Helipad located in the interior parts of insurgency-hit Bijapur district was killed after a group of armed Maoists opened fire on the police personnel guarding the facility here on Friday.
A trooper of Chhattisgarh Armed Force (CAF) was also injured in the incident, Superintendent of Police (SP) Bijapur Kl Dhruv informed.
According to him, a group of armed Maoists opened fire on the troopers deployed to secure the Helipad in a forested patch under Pamed police station limits situated about 100 km away from district headquarters Bijapur.
Constable, Baburam Markam of District Force (DF) and Dinesh Ogre of Chhattisgarh Armed Force (CAF), were seriously injured in the attack. The police
personnel immediately retaliated but the Maoists managed to run away from the spot, he added.
Quickly, the injured were rushed to a local hospital from where both were referred to Raipur for better treatment. However, Constable Markam could not make it to Raipur and succumbed to injuries on the way, the SP informed.
The condition of the injured CAF trooper was reported to be stable, he said adding, security forces have launched a combing operation to nab the assailants, Dhruv said.