26 CRPF personnel killed in Naxal attack

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

Raipur, June 29: In a major Naxal attack, 26 CRPF personnel were Tuesday shot dead and seven injured in an ambush in a remote area of Chhattisgarh’s Narayanpur district.
Heavily-armed Maoists opened fire with automatic weapons from a hilltop when a 63-member security contingent was returning from road opening duty on foot, Union Home Secretary G K Pillai said in New Delhi.
The attack, which also left seven personnel including four special police officers of the Chhattisgarh Police injured, took place at Daurai Road area, about 300 km from here, at around 3 PM.
It comes nearly three months after the worst April six Dantewada massacre by the Maoist which left 75 personnel of the force and one Chhattisgarh policeman dead.
Pillai said security and medical reinforcements have been sent to the spot and all the bodies have been recovered. The injured have been taken to a hospital by a helicopter, he said.
The troops were from the 39th battalion of the force and were a part of its ‘E’ and ‘F’ companies, CRPF Chief Vikram Srivastava said.
On May 8, eight men of the paramilitary force were killed when naxals blew up a mine-proof vehicle also in Narayanpur district.

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