Chief Minister Raman Singh paid a floral tribute to the police personnel who embraced martyrdom bravely fighting against the Maoist rebels on Saturday at village Pidamel near Dornapal in Sukma district here on Monday. The attack led to the martyrdom of seven STF personnel and injured 10 others. The bodies of the security personnel who were killed in the ambush was flown in here on Sunday evening in a special Indian Air Force chopper and kept in the Police line.
Those who were killed in the Naxal ambush include head constables Manoj Kumar Baghel and Rohit Kumar Shori, Platoon Commander Shankar Rao, constables Rajman Netam, Kiran Kumar Deshmukh, Mohan Singh Uikey and Rajkumar Markam. The Chief Minister reached here and paid his last respect to the martyrs. He was accompanied by Home Minister Ramsewak Paikra, Tribal Welfare Minister Kedar Kashyap, District Panchayat President Jabita Mandavi, Chief Secretary Vivek Dhand, Special Director General (Operations) CRPF Durga Prasad, Additional Director General of Police (Naxal Operations) R K Vij, Divisional Commissioner R P Jain, SP Ajay Yadav, Bastar Collector Amit Kataria among other dignitaries.
later on, he also visited the injured personnel — Ranjeet Singh, Arvind Sharma and Marakam Kesa — who are undergoing treatment at Maharani Hospital and wished them speedy recovery. The Chief Minister also instructed the doctors to provide with best possible treatment and took feedback from them as well. The doctors also informed the Chief Minister that they (injured personnel) are out of danger.