Chhattisgarh: 6-month-old infant killed, mother and 2 jawans injured in Naxal encounter in Bijapur
India TV News2 DRG jawans injured in Naxal encounter in Chhattisgarh's Bijapur; 6-month-old girl killed, mother hurt in crossfire, said the police officials on Monday. A 6-month-old girl was killed and her mother was hurt in firing between security forces and Naxalites in Bijapur in Chhattisgarh on Monday, which also left two District Reserve Guard jawans injured, they added. The official sources on Sunday said three battalions of the BSF comprising more than 3,000 personnel would move across the border from Odisha to Chhattisgarh and an equal number of ITBP units will further move into the Naxal stronghold of Abujhmad as part of a strategy to intensify anti-Maoist operations in their last bastions. Sources in the security establishment said that the Border Security Force has been directed to create six new COBs or company operating bases in Chhattisgarh's Narayanpur district by initially moving one of its battalion based in Odisha's Malkangiri, just across the inter-state border.