RAIPUR: The IED triggered Monday, killing eight constables and a driver, was planted long ago, authorities said, with grass growing on the wires connected to it.“It was probably a command IED, one that is triggered manually by Maoists with a switch wired to the bomb,” Dantewada DIG Kamlochan Kashyap said. The blast was triggered near…
RAIPUR: Chhattisgarh police‘s counter-insurgency force District Reserve Guard (DRG) lost eight constables and a driver when Maoists targeted their vehicle by setting off an IED weighing almost 70kg in Bastar region‘s Bijapur district Monday afternoon.This was the deadliest Maoist attack since April 2023 when a similar IED explosion claimed the lives of 10 security personnel…
RAIPUR: Four days before Maharashtra polls, five Maoists, including two women, were shot dead in a nearly daylong encounter with security forces in Abujhmarh forests of Bastar Saturday. The gunbattle took place in a jungle on the border of Kanker and Narayanpur, close to the Maharashtra border.Security personnel seized five automatic weapons, including an Insas…
