The incident took place early in the morning near Tarrem village under Basaguda police station. Thinkstock
Bijapur, November 22
A CRPF jawan was injured on Friday when a pressure bomb placed by Naxals went off in Chhattisgarh’s insurgency-hit Bijapur district, police said.
The incident took place early in the morning near Tarrem village under Basaguda police station when a team of CRPF’s 168th Battalion was out on an area domination operation, Bijapur Superintendent of Police Divyang Patel said.
While the patrolling team was cordoning off a forest near Tarrem, 450 km from the state capital Raipur, a paramilitary jawan inadvertently stepped over the pressure IED connection triggering the blast that left him injured.
The injured constable, Munna Kumar, was shifted to a local hospital, Patel said, adding that a combing operation was under way in the area. PTI
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