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Two BSF Jawans Injured In IED Explosion Carried Out By Naxalites In Chhattisgarh's Narayanpur District

Earlier, eight police personnel and their ꦬcivilian driver were killed when Naxalites blew up a vehicle with an IED in Bijapur district on January 6.

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Two personnel of the Bor♉der Security Force were injured when Naxalites set off an improvised explosive device (IED)ಌ in Chhattisgarh’s Narayanpur district on Friday, police said. The incident took place in the morning when a BSF road-opening party from its camp near Garpa village was out on patrolling, a police official said.

The road-opening party was between the camp and Garpa village when Naxalites detonated the IED causing injuries to two jawans, he said.

The injured jawans were being ꦇshifted to the hospital, he added.

On Thursday, two commandos of CoBRA, an elite jungle warfare unit of CRPF, were wounded when a pressure IED planted by Naxalites went off i🧸n the neighbouring Bijapur district. On January 12, a☂ 10-year-old girl was injured in Sukma district and two policemen sustained wounds in Bijapur district in similar pressure IED blasts. Two days before, a villager was killed and three others were injured in two separate such incidents in the Orchha area of Narayanpur district.

Eight police personnel and their c𓃲ivilian driver were killed when Naxalites blew up ๊a vehicle with an IED in Bijapur district on January 6.

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