An eight-year-old school girl died while her mother was seriously injured, when an IED planted by Naxals went off at under construction Konta-Banda-Golapalli road in Konta police station limits of insurgency-hit Sukma district on Thursday evening. The victim girl and her mother were returning to their village Kanhiguda from weekly market at Konta, when the explosion happened, Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP) Sukma, Santosh Singh informed.
According to the police, Muchki Anita (8) resident of Kanhiguda village was a student of class 3 in Bhejji Ashram.
Anita was suffering from some illness and her mother had taken her to the weekly market. They were walking back home around 5 pm when the IED planted by Naxals below a tree exploded, Singh said.
The blast was so intense that the girl died on the spot while, her seriously injured mother was still unconscious till the report last came in, he said. Immediately after the incident, the police force was rushed to the spot and body of the girl was retrieved while the unconscious mother has been admitted to a hospital at Konta, Singh.
Notably, in a similar blast which happened last week at the same spot, a CRPF Jawan was killed while a seriously injured Deputy Commander is still in coma. In a separate action, police succeeded in detecting and defusing a 10 kg IED from Gorkha region under Bhejji police station limits, he said.