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26 CRPF personnel killed in Maoists attack in Chhattisgarh | Union Home Secretary G.K. Pillai on Tuesday said that 26 Central Reserve Police Force (CRFP) personnel were killed and seven injured as Maoists ambushed a patrolling party in Chhattisgarh's Narayanpur District on Tuesday. According to reports, at least 90 Maoists were involved in the ambush
on a 63-strong CRPF road-opening party. It took place around 3 p.m. near Dhaudhai
Police Station in Narayanpur. "There was a very unfortunate incident today in
Narayanpur, where a party of the CRPF, which had gone out on a road opening party
was ambushed by the Maoists. As a result of the ambush, a total of 26 CRPF jawans
were killed and seven are injured," Pillai said. "The entire party of 63, which
had gone out, except of those killed, the bodies have been brought back, and the
jawans have come back to the camp," he added. He further said that most of the
injured are being treated in the camp itself. "Reinforcement from the neighbouring
camps have also reached, including medical teams. Two injured have been evacuated
by helicopter, and the rest are being treated in the camp itself by doctors who
have come as part of the reinforcement team," Pillai said. |
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