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7 cops killed in Maoist attack in Chhattisgarh
7 Cops Killed In Maoist Attack In Chhattisgarh. Seven policemen were on Saturday killed and a dozen injured when Naxals ambushed them, triggering a gun battle in the dense jungles of Maoist hotbed of Sukma district in Chhattisgarh.
Raipur: Seven policemen were on Saturday killed and a dozen injured when Naxals ambushed them, triggering a gun battle in the dense jungles of Maoist hotbed of Sukma district in Chhattisgarh. The two-hour gunbattle took place in the wrst-affected Pidmel-Polampalli area of the district when a squad of state police Special Task Force (STF) was out for operations.
Officials said a group of about 300 Maoists opened heavy fire on the police team at around 9:15 am when it was conducting a search operation in the jungles of the district, about 390kms south of state capital Raipur. "Seven of our troops have been martyred while about twelve injured in the encounter," Additional Director General of Police (Anti-Naxal operations) R K Vij said.
They said the 70 personnel strong STF squad was confronted with a volley of bullets in the jungles which is at the south axis of the Dornapal-Chintagufa area where several ambushes and killings of security forces had taken place in the past including the most deadly when 76 personnel were killed here in 2010.
