Within 24 hours of the death of an 8-year-old school girl who was killed from an IED planted by Maoists in restive Sukma district of Chhattisgarh, an elderly woman died after stepping on a pressure bomb in the same district on Friday.
A 55-year-old woman identified as Muchki Hidme wife of Hidma resident of Kosapara, Gorkha village under Bhejji police station limits, died in an explosion caused by a pressure bomb planted by Naxals on Kottacheru-Gorkha road, Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP), Sukma, Santosh Singh said.
According to him, it seems that the elderly woman had gone to collect ‘Mahua’, which is used by indigenous population for brewing local beer, when the blast occurred.
Just a day back, an eight-year-old school girl died while her mother was seriously injured, when an IED planted by Naxals went off at an under construction Konta-Banda-Golapalli road in Konta police station limits of insurgency-hit Sukma district on Thursday evening.
Meanwhile, according to Kondagaon district police, Ramuram Kunjam son of Chaitram Kunjam resident of Ghodajhar village under Keshkal police station limits was killed by Naxals after branding him as police informer.