ITBP jawan dies, one other injured in Chhattisgarh Maoist ambush

A safety personnel died whereas one other was injured in a Maoist ambush in Chhattisgarh’s Narayanpur district on Tuesday. The Indo-Tibetan Border Patrol (ITBP) personnel had been a part of a Road-opening celebration for the go to of native Congress MLA Chandan Kashyap.
A celebration of forty fifth battalion of the ITBP Tuesday had left the Chhotedongar police station for ROP responsibility when round 10am, they had been ambushed by the Maoists. According to senior officers, the rebels had been hiding close to the hills within the Amdai Ghati and began firing on the personnel. “The ITBP party retaliated and a jawan was killed and another injured in cross-firing,” Bastar IG P Sundarraj confirmed.

The deceased has been recognized as Shiv Kumar Meena from Rajasthan whereas the injured personnel was recognized as Keshav Singh, who sustained accidents and is now out of hazard.
MLA Chandan Kashyap, who was purported to journey via the realm, sourced a helicopter and didn’t journey by way of street.
Maoists had attacked an iron ore mining web site in the identical space earlier this month, killing the supervisor of a non-public agency, torching six heavy autos and briefly holding 13 different staff hostage.
In a separate incident, nearly 300km away, 34 folks from a village in Sukma district had been taken hostage by the Maoists. According to senior officers, the incident is from Kunded village in Konta block of Sukma, 5km from Jagargunda. “People started disappearing from July 17 in three batches, and are homogenously distributed across all paras of the village. It is of concern that those who have gone, haven’t come back, as Maoists generally release people after conducting their meetings or other business,” stated a senior officer.

The group of 34 folks embrace college college students, lecturers and a salesman from the village amongst farmers, police stated. “We are trying to track these people and trying to assure their safe release,” the senior officer stated.