Maoist insurgents opened intense firing on the security forces guarding an under construction police station even as a villager was badly injured in explosion of a pressure bomb in insurgency hit Sukma district Monday morning, police sources said.
According to police department sources, in intervening night of Sunday and Monday Maoist insurgents started firing on security forces manning the under construction thana building at Gorgunda. The police personnel also returned the fire leading to an hour long gun battle after which the rebels took to their heels. No casualty was reported in the incident, sources said.
In another incident, a villager of Burkapal was critically hurt as pressure bomb exploded between Burkapal and Chintagufa when he inadvertently put his foot on the booby trap allegedly laid down by Rebels to target security forces.
Notably, to conduct peaceful and fair poll in Bastar division large number of police and paramilitary jawans are scheduled to be deployed in Bastar. These jawans have started converging and are deployed gradually at their assigned place. To target the paramilitary jawans and also to disrupt Assembly polls, the rebels have alleged planted large number of landmines in forested areas.