Friday, March 29, 2024
HomeNation10 CRPF commandos martyred in IED blast set off by Naxals in...

10 CRPF commandos martyred in IED blast set off by Naxals in Bihar

- Advertisement -

10 highly trained commandos of CRPF’s elite force, COBRA were killed in an encounter with the Maoists on Monday. The incident took place in the Sondaha jungles on the Aurangabad-Gaya border touching Jharkhand border.

10 CRPF commandos martyred-AV
The jawans belonged to the 205th COBRA battalion and were deployed in the state for conducting anti-naxal operations. This is one of the biggest casualties of the elite COBRA unit which has been raised by the CRPF for undertaking special jungle warfare operations.

“While eight personnel were killed on the spot, two others succumbed to their injuries when they were being evacuated,” a senior official said.

Officials said three Maoists were killed in the encounter that took place in Dumari Nala forest area on the border of Gaya and Aurangabad districts, 172km south of Patna, where the CRPF had launched a combing operation.

A team of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel were trapped after the rebels triggered around 21 improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and came under heavy firing on Monday night, police said.

The total extent of casualties on the Maoist side is not known, because they are known to take away their injured as well as bodies of the deceased members after an encounter.

Addition reinforcements of the state police and CRPF have reached the spot and a search operation has been launched.

Officials said over a dozen IED blasts were triggered by the Naxals.

Home Minister Rajnath Singh directed CRPF Director General to visit Gaya-Aurangabad to assess the situation.

The Chief Minister briefed the Home Minister of the steps taken to nab those involved in the attack on the team of COBRA commandos of CRPF, sources said.

The Home Minister assured the Chief Minister of all possible help to the state government to deal with the situation arising out of the attack, the sources said.

Singh expressed his heartfelt condolences to the families of the bereaved martyrs and wished speedy recovery of the injured personnel.

The martyred CRPF men have been identified as Head Constables Anil Kumar Singh, a resident of Buxar in Bihar and K Opendra Singh of Thoubal, Manipur, Constables Sinod Kumar of Azamgarh in Uttar Pradesh, Ramesh Kumar from Hoshiarpur in Punjab, Diwakar Kumar from Khagariya in Bihar, Polash Mondal from South Denajpur in West Bengal, Deepak Ghosh of Nadia in West Bengal, Manoj Kumar of Betul in Madhya Pradesh, Harvender Panwar of Muzaffarnagar in UP and Ravi Kumar from Siwan in Bihar.

- Advertisement -
- Advertisement -
- Advertisement -

Latest

Must Read

- Advertisement -

Related News