The Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) on Saturday recovered 3 kilograms of Improvised Explosive Device (IED) after defusing the explosive planted by the Maoists.
New Indian Express. The missing soldier belongs to the UT of Jammu and Kashmir, sources told
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Gunfight in tough terrain led to high casualty
The twenty-two personnel who were killed in the fierce gunfight on April 3, include eight each from the elite Cobra battalion of CRPF and District Reserve Guards (DRG), six belonged to Chhattisgarh’s Special Task Force (STF) and one from the CRPF’s Bastariya Battalion. While the number of casualties on the side of Maoists couldn’t be established, one body of a Maoist leader with an INSAS rifle was recovered. She has been identified as Madavi Vanoja, believed to be the commander of the Local Guerilla Squad (LGS) of Pamed area, with an INSAS, was recovered by the forces.
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Raipur: A jawan of the Chhattisgarh Special Task Force (STF) was killed in an improvised explosive device (IED) blast planted by Naxals in the insurgency-hit Bijapur district on Sunday.
A group of STF jawans were on area domination exercise from Tarrem police station limits on Sunday morning. In a forested patch under the police station about 430 km south of state capital Raipur, the incident occurred, said Kamlochan Kashyap, Superintendent of Police (SP) Bijapur.
Mohan Nag, an STF jawan, accidentally stepped on an IED planted by Maoists in the jungle. The device went off triggering the explosion, the SP said.