Three District Reserve Guard (DRG) personnel were killed and one seriously injured in an improvised explosive device (IED) blast during a de-mining operation in Kanker district of south Chhattisgarh on Saturday.
According to Kanker Superintendent of Police Nikhil Rakhecha, a joint team of the District Reserve Guard (DRG) and other security forces had set out on a combing operation in the dense forests of Koylibeda.
Jitendra Yadav, Bijapur superintendent of police, said that fresh exchanges of fire on Sunday led to the recovery of two more bodies of uniformed Maoists, along with an INSAS rifle and a .303 rifle.
According to official sources, joint teams of the District Reserve Guard (DRG), Special Task Force (STF) and CoBRA battalion moved into the north-western forest belt of the district early in the morning as part of a coordinated search operation
A District Reserve Guard (DRG) constable lost his life in an accidental firing after returning from an anti-Naxal area domination operation in Chhattisgarh’s Narayanpur district, casting a pall of grief over the police establishment.
The exchange of fire took place in the Adavada–Kotmeta forest area under the Bhairamgarh police station limits after the District Reserve Guard (DRG), Bijapur, launched a search operation based on specific intelligence inputs about Maoist presence in the region.
Two personnel of the District Reserve Guard (DRG) sustained injuries during a prolonged encounter with Maoists in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district, police officials confirmed on Tuesday.
In what is being hailed as Chhattisgarh’s most decisive anti-Maoist operation, security forces eliminated 31 Maoist insurgents in a meticulously executed two-hour encounter on Friday.
The security forces successfully neutralised six Maoists in an encounter with the ultras in Bijapur district of Chhattisgarh on Wednesday.
During the operation, one woman uniformed Naxal was killed, and her body was recovered. The police also recovered 12-bore rifles.
