Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) 168th battalion's assistant commandant Madhukumar, and inspectors T A Khan and Manoj Kumar D were injured when they came in contact with a landmine which exploded on Avapalli road under Basaguda police station limits in Bijapur, a senior police official told PTI over phone.
A team of CRPF had been sent for patrolling this morning. When the security personnel reached the Avapalli road, they got information about a landmine having been laid there underground, he said.
Additional police force was rushed to the site and the injured personnel were retrieved from there. They were flown to Raipur in a helicopter where they were admitted in a hospital for treatment, the official added.
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