Raipur, March 7
Two Border Security Force (BSF) personnel, including an assistant commandant from Haryana, were killed in an encounter with Naxals in Chhattisgarh’s insurgency-hit Kanker district today, police officials said.
The incident took place at around 4 pm in the Kilenar village forest under the Rawghat police station limits when a joint team of the BSF’s 134th battalion and district force was out on an anti-Naxal operation, IGP (Bastar range) Vivekanand Sinha said.
“Assistant Commandant Gajendra Singh, a native of Haryana, and constable Amresh Kumar from Bihar, both belonging to BSF’s 134th battalion, were killed in the incident,” he said.
DIG (north Bastar range) Ratan Lal Dangi said the joint team had launched the operation yesterday in the interiors of Rawghat, around 250 km from Raipur.
“When the patrolling team was 10 km inside the forest of Kilenar, the ultras triggered IED blasts and also opened indiscriminate firing on them, which led to an exchange of fire,” Dangi said. — PTI
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