On Friday, a Maoist attack in Chhattisgarh’s Narayanpur district murdered an Indo-Tibetan Border Patrol (ITBP) assistant commandant and his colleague. The raid took occurred near the ITBP’s 45th battalion’s Kademeta camp. According to early reports, an ITBP unit on an area dominance operation was shot upon by a small Maoist action team around 600 metres away from the camp.
According to IG Bastar P Sundarraj, the Maoists departed the scene after snatching one AK-47 weapon, two bullet-proof jackets, and one wireless set. “The attack killed assistant commandant Sudhakar Shinde (45) and assistant sub inspector (ASI) Gurmukh Singh (40),” he added. Shinde was from Maharashtra’s Nanded area, whereas Singh was from Punjab’s Rajkot. “After the event, we are scouring the jungles, and reinforcements have been sent,” the officer added.
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He said that reinforcements had been dispatched to the scene and that the corpses of those deceased had been removed. This year, there have been many Maoist attacks on security officers in Chhattisgarh. An ITBP officer was murdered, and another was injured in a Maoist ambush in Narayanpur last month. The officers were part of a road-opening party for local Congress MLA Chandan Kashyap’s visit.
Maoists assaulted an iron ore mining facility in the same location the previous month, murdering a private firm’s boss, torching six heavy vehicles, and temporarily keeping 13 other personnel prisoners. The most serious Maoist attack occurred in April when 22 security officers were murdered, and more were injured in the Bastar area. This was the most people killed in a terrorist incident in the last four years. Five members of the District Reserve Guard (DRG) were murdered, and numerous others were injured in an IED incident in Narayanpur in March. The Maoists allegedly attacked a bus carrying more than 20 security officers, according to the authorities.
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