Police patrolling team at latehar had a close shave on Monday afternoon as three landmines were exploded seconds after they passed Hurhuri village under Manika Police station. Two vehicles carrying Barwadih CDPO Anuj Kumar Baraik, officer in-charge of Manika Police Station Mithlesh Kumar Singh along with two sub inspectors and 11 police constables were on their way towards Barwadih on NH 75.
“The red ultras triggered three landmines targeting the two police vehicles gong towards Barwadih, but they escaped unhurt as they had already crossed the spot,” said latehar SP Michael Raj S.
A constable, who also had a close escape, said that three landmines were exploded successively targeting the police team but since the vehicles had already crossed the spot barely seconds before the explosion, they escaped unhurt. They however, continued to move on as it could have been fatal for them to stop after the explosion.
The incident occurred at around 2 pm in the afternoon. later an intensive search operation was launched to search the ultras and an encounter took place between the security forces and CPI (Maoists) till late in the evening. Intensive firing from both the sides took place during the encounter. No one was hurt from any of the sides in the encounter.
CPI (Maoist) reportedly is observing a ‘People’s liberation of Guerrilla Army’ week.