RAIPUR: Two personnel of the Indo-Tibet Border Police (ITBP) succumbed to their injuries after being badly hurt by a strong Improvised Explosive Device (IED) explosion, executed by the Maoists in Abujhmaad of Narayanpur district on Saturday, October 19.
The fateful incident has occurred near forest of Kodliar village of Mohandi on Saturday’s afternoon, when a joint team of ITBP, Border Security Force and District Reserve Guard was returning from a counter-insurgency operation in the area. Two other personnel of the district police have also sustained injuries in the attack.
Security forces have evacuated the personnel injured in the attack, who are being treated at the nearby healthcare facility. An extensive search operation in the vicinity is being conducted by the security forces to catch the Maoists.
#UPDATE | Narayanpur, Chhattisgarh: Two ITBP jawans who were injured in an IED blast executed by naxals, succumbed to their injuries. Two jawans of Narayanpur District Police injured in the incident: Narayanpur District Police https://t.co/S1bupYUxZc
— ANI (@ANI) October 19, 2024
Those who attained Veergati have been identified as Amar Panwar, a resident of Satara district of Maharashtra and Rajesh, a resident of Kadappa district of Andhra Pradesh. Reacting to the incident, state’s Chief Minister Vishnu Deo Sai has expressed his condolences to the families of the fallen soldiers.
नारायणपुर जिले के ग्राम कोडलियर के समीप जंगल में आईईडी ब्लास्ट की चपेट में आने से आईटीबीपी के 2 जवान वीरगति को प्राप्त हो गए। ब्लास्ट में 2 पुलिस जवानों के घायल होने की भी दुःखद सूचना प्राप्त हुई है।
ईश्वर से शहीद जवानों की आत्मा की शांति एवं शोकाकुल परिजनों को संबल प्रदान…
— Vishnu Deo Sai (@vishnudsai) October 19, 2024
Notably, the explosion has taken place in Maoist’s den of Maad region, where the security forces had recently gunned down as many as 38 Maoists in a major operation on October 4, those killed in the encounter included of a few top commanders of the banned outfit.
Read the full report here: All about the massive offensive of security forces in Abujhmaad, which inflicted a heavy blow to Maoists……
Maoists kill Congress leader in Bijapur
In a related development, cadres of the banned Maoist outfit have killed a local congress leader in Usur block of Bijapur district, suggest media reports.
The deceased has been identified as Tirupati Bhandari, a former vice village head (upsarpanch). Bhandari was reportedly associated with the Congress party.
The incident took place when Bhandari had arrived at a shop in Usur on Saturday evening where the Maoists attacked him with sharp edged weapon, leading to his death. More details about the incident is still awaited.
It is noteworthy that this is not the first time that the extremists have killed a political representative of the area and the Maoists had also killed the then BJP’s Usur block president Neelkanth in February last year. Notably, the tribal dominated interior areas of Chhattisgarh’s Bastar division has a strong presence of outlawed CPI (Maoist).
