A trooper of District Force (DF) was seriously injured after a bomb planted by Maoists went off in the insurgency-hit Narayanpur district, police said here on Wednesday.
“A police team comprising of District Force and Chhattisgarh Armed Force (CAF) personnel had started from Amdaighati camp toward Rajpur for providing security cover to a road construction work under progress,” Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP), Narayanpur, OP Sharma said.
Around 9 am, a bomb planted by Naxals was triggered at Amdaighati in which Constable Narendra Singh Choudhary of District Force was injured, the ASP added. Bomb splinters had hit the constable at his face and body and he was rushed to a Primary Health Centre at Chhotte Dongar. later on, the jawan was airlifted to Raipur for better treatment, the ASP informed.