Raipur, January 20
A policeman was on Saturday injured after Naxals triggered an improvised explosive device near a market in Chhattisgarh’s insurgency-hit Dantewada district.
A local police official told PTI that assistant constable Jagat Ram Karma was near a weekly market at Chhote Tumnar village under Geedam police station when the incident occurred.
Karma, posted at Bijapur’s Nelasnar police station, was rushed to a hospital in Bijapur and he is currently out of danger, the official said.
Combing operations had been launched in the region to track down the ultras, he added. PTI
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