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Of those killed in Naxal attack in Chhattisgarh one hailed from Mandi

MANDI: Of the soldiers killed in the Naxal attack in Chhattisgarh’s Sukma district one was from Mandi district. He has been identified as Surender Thakur (33).

Of those killed in Naxal attack in Chhattisgarh one hailed from Mandi

Surender Thakur



Dipender Manta

Tribune News Service

Mandi, April 25

Of the soldiers killed in the Naxal attack in Chhattisgarh’s Sukma district one was from Mandi district. He has been identified as Surender Thakur (33), head constable, Central Reserve Police Force battalion 74.

Deputy Commissioner Sandeep Kadam confirmed the report and saying the soldier was a native of Nerchowk.

According to the family, after the ambush when they tried to contact him on phone, it was picked by someone, who told them that he was killed in the ambush.

On Monday, at least 25 Central Reserve Police Force personnel were killed and six others were wounded in a Naxalite attack in Sukma.

The CRPF personnel were attacked in the Kala Pathar area of south Bastar, close to the Chintagufa-Burkapal-Bheji axis, the hotbed of Naxal violence that has seen a series of such attacks in the past.

The body will be brought here in a day or two.

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The solider is survived by his wife, a three-year-old daughter, an elder brother and mother.

Surender was posted in the CRPF in year 2003 and he served in Jammu and Srinagar for six years.

He was posted in Sukma district of Chhattisgarh for the past three years.

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