Two security personnel, one of them belonging to CRPF's specialised unit CoBRA, were injured in a pressure bombblast triggered by Naxals in Chhattisgarh's Bijapur district today, police said.
The incident took place in the forests near Lenda village under Basaguda police station limits whena joint team of CRPF and district force was carrying out an anti-Naxal operation,a CRPF official told PTI.
The joint squad had launched an area domination exercise on November 22 from Sarkeguda, around 450 kms away from the state capital.
About 12 kms away from Sarkeguda, when they were cordoning off a thickly-forested patch near Lenda in afternoon, two jawansaccidentally stepped over apressure improvised explosive device (IED)triggering the blast causing injuries to them, the official said.
Theinjuredwere identified as constable Gulshan Kujur of the 204th battalion of the Commando Battalion for Resolute Action (CoBRA) and Bheema, a district police jawan.
Soon after getting information about the incident, reinforcement was rushed to the spot and theinjuredwere retrieved from the forests and rushed to Jagdalpur for treatment, the officer added.
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A report from Udhagamandalam in neighbouring Tamil Nadu
said checkposts in the hilly Nilgiris district, bordering Kerala and Karnataka, have been put on alert to prevent possible Maoist infiltration from the Nilambur area.
Police said six checkposts bordering Kerala and one on the Karnataka border have been strengthened and police personnel at the nearby stations asked to be prepared to tackle any eventuality.
Checking of vehicles, particularly those coming from Kerala, have been intensified to prevent the possibility of the extremists fleeing to Karnataka, they said.
