Fifteen security personnel were killed in a Maoist ambush on Tuesday in the Sukma district of south Chhattisgarh. One civilian, Vikram Nishad, also died in the crossfire while three were injured.
Chhattisgarh’s Additional Director General of Police Mukesh Gupta said 11 of the personnel who died belonged to the CRPF while four were from the Chhattisgarh police.
The incident took place when a joint team of the CRPF and the State police — about 50 personnel divided into two platoons — were moving from Tongpal village to Jeeram Ghati in Sukma district, the same area where a Maoist ambush had killed 27 people last May.
The team was engaged in an area domination exercise to sanitise the area for troop movement and also to provide security to road construction workers. About 100 Maoists surrounded them and opened fire.
Sources in the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) in Delhi said an alert had been sounded last month in view of the Lok Sabha elections.
Against procedure
An MHA official said prima facie there appeared to have been a complete violation of the standard operating procedure as the security personnel had been taking the same route for the past couple of days.
After the ambush, the Maoists planted explosives in a soldier’s body, Inspector General (IG) of Bastar A.D. Gautam said. But they apparently did not plant any bombs at the ambush site, as they normally do, as no explosive was recovered till evening… see more
source: thehindu
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