Two security personnel were injured in an IED blast in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district on Sunday, a senior police officer informed.
The blast was carried out by Naxals near forests under Tarrem police station.
The joint team of security forces was attacked while returning from an anti-Maoist operation.
The blast took place when the security personnel were cordoning off a forest patch in the area.
The composite squad of CoBRA (Commando Battalion for Resolute Action), DRG and district force was involved in the operation in the interiors of Tarrem and Basaguda area.
One of the injured has been identified as Badal Murmu of CRPF’s elite wing — CoBRA — and the other is District Police Assistant Constable Roshan Kumar.
Search operation has been launched to nab the attackers involved in the incident and the injured have been sent to a hospital.
Maoist violence has risen in the State mainly in its restive Bastar this week with three DRG jawans being
martyred on Saturday and approximately 10 others who were left injured in the ‘Operation Prahar’ which was launched in Sukma district of Chhattisgarh to eliminate Naxals.
The Director General, Naxal operations, DM Awasthi, on Sunday, informed about the casualties while claiming that around one dozen Naxals have been
killed during the operation but Police failed to recover bodies of the deceased Naxals.