Raipur, March 23: Five police personnel were killed and 13 others injured as Naxals blew up the bus in which they were traveling in Chhattisgarh’s Narayanpur district on Tuesday, senior police officials said.
The landmine explosions took place between Kanhargaon and Kadenar villages under Dhaudai police station limits. Personnel of the police’s District Reserve Guard (DRG) were returning in the bus to Narayanpur town, 300 km away from capital Raipur, after a counter-insurgency operation, said Inspector General of Police (Bastar range) Sundarraj P. “Five DRG personnel, including the driver, were killed in the explosions,” he told PTI.
Reinforcement was rushed to the spot and bodies and injured personnel were evacuated from the forest. The injured personnel are being airlifted to Raipur in an Indian Air Force chopper for treatment, the IG added.
Around 3 pm on Tuesday, security forces from Narayanpur returned to Kademeta camp. Those belonging to the DRG unit of the district headquarter proceeded in a bus, he said. Around 4.15 pm, Naxals triggered three blasts targeting the bus which had some 25 personnel onboard.
Sundarraj said a joint team of security forces from Narayanpur and neighbouring Dantewada district had launched an anti-Naxal operation on the border of two districts on Monday. (PTI)
