Two policemen were gunned down and six others, including two civilians, sustained bullet wounds on Monday in a fierce gunbattle with leftist insurgents in violence-hit Bastar region.Dozens of heavily armed Maoists sprayed bullets on a searching team of policemen at Pakhanjur’s Bandre police station area in Kanker district in which a In-charge Station House Officer (SHO) and Sub Inspector Avinash Sharma and a constable Sonu Ram Gawade were martyred.
“A joint contingent of BSF and District Force (DF) came under heavy Maoist firing. The cops who had reportedly some specific intelligence about Maoists gathering at a certain forested patch were riding on motorcycles when insurgents trapped them,’’ Chhattisgarh’s Additional Director General of Police (Naxal operation) RK Vij told The Pioneer.
He stated that at least three BSF men were among the injured and the State government had rushed a chopper to airlift them to Raipur for advanced treatment.Reinforcement has been sent to the attack site to apprehend the attackers.