An Assistant Commandant of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and two other personnel on Monday were injured in a landmine blast on Avapalli road under Basaguda police station limits in Bijapur district, police informed
Assistant Commandant Madhukumar of CRPF’s 168th battalion and inspectors TA Khan and Manoj Kumar D were injured when the landmine exploded as they were defusing it, a senior police official informed. A team of CRPF personnel were sent on patrol duty and when they reached the Avapalli road, they received information that a landmine had been laid underground, he said.
The CRPF’s bomb disposal squad immediately started making efforts to defuse the landmine after it was detected, but in the process, it exploded injuring the three personnel at the site he said. The CRPF sent additional police force to pick up the injured personnel from the site who were later flown to a Raipur hospital in a copter.