Friday, February 28, 2014

A Naxal ambush in Maoist-hit Dantewada

SHO and five other policemen died on the spot
Dantewada: Feb 28 2014: (Naxal Screen Bureau): Minimum seven police personals killed in a Naxal ambush attack. incident took place in Dantewada. According to initial a Station House Officer (SHO) and six police personnel were killed in a Naxal ambush in Maoist-hit Dantewada district of Chhattisgarh, on Friday afternoon. Minimum four others were injured. The Naxal attack comes in the run up to Lok Sabha elections. The incident happened in Nakulnar where these members of police patrol team headed by SHO, Kuwakonda, Vivek Shukla was on a way to Shyamgiri Hills for security of an under-construction road near Kuwakonda-Bacheli where the police was deployed for security at a construction site. . The patrol team comprising around 12 police jawans was moving on motorcycles when the armed rebels opened indiscriminate firing on them, resulting in the death of SHO Shukla and five other policemen on the spot, he said. Soon after getting the news of the attack, security forces were rushed to the site located in dense forests on a hilly terrain.The injured personnel were air-lifted to capital city, Raipur.

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