Nine people died in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district on Monday after Maoists used an improvised explosive device to blow up a vehicle carrying members of the district reserve guard — the first major insurgent strike amid a string of ferocious encounters by security forces over the past year to eradicate Left-wing extremism in the state. “The victims, members of the District …
A head constable was killed and another policeman injured when Naxals detonated an Improvised Explosive Device in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district on Tuesday, police said. The incident took place around 9.30 am under Kutru police station area, located around 450 km from Raipur, when a team of security personnel was out on an area domination operation to ensure security to road …