Raipur: In the third Naxal attack in the last 48 hours, one Border Security Force soldier was killed in a gunbattle with the rebels in Chhattisgarh's Kanker district on Monday.
A group of Naxals opened indiscriminate firing on security personnel who were carrying out patrolling in the proximity of Chhote Baithiya BSF camp under Bande police station area late Sunday night, Kanker Superintendent of Police Jitendra Singh Meena said.
A gunbattle erupted between security forces and ultras and the rebels soon fled to the core forests, he added.
"A BSF head constable succumbed to bullet injuries, sustained during the gunfight, while being taken to a local hospital," the SP said.
Soon after the incident, reinforcements were rushed to the spot, he said adding that a combing operation has been launched in the region to nab the assailants.
On Sunday, Naxals torched 17 transport vehicles and machines at an iron ore mine in the Barbaspur village in the Kanker district.
In a deadly attack on Saturday, seven policemen were killed while 12 others were injured in an ambush by Naxals in Sukma district of Chhattisgarh.
The encounter took place in the worst-affected Pidmel-Polampalli area of the district when a squad of state police STF was out on operations around noon. "Seven of our troops have been martyred while at least ten injured in the encounter," Additional Director General of Police (Anti-Naxal operations) RK Vij said.
Officials said the encounter broke out when the 61-strong STF squad confronted an armed Maoist squad in the south axis of Dornapal-Chintagufa area where several ambushes and killings of security forces had taken place in the past.
The killed policemen have been identified as Platoon Commander Shankar Rao, Head Constables Rohit Sodhi and Manoj Baghel, Constables Mohan V K, Rajkumar Markam, Kiran Deshmukh and Rajman Tekam.
(With additional information from PTI)
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