11 Security Personnel Injured in Maoist IED Blasts in Chhattisgarh

Eleven security personnel were injured in a series of improvised explosive device blasts triggered by Maoists during an anti-Naxal operation in Chhattisgarh's Bijapur district on Sunday, officials said.

The explosions occurred late that evening in the forested Karregutta Hills area under the Usoor police station limits, near the border with Telangana. A joint team from the District Reserve Guard, a state police unit, and the Commando Battalion for Resolute Action, an elite Central Reserve Police Force group, was conducting a sanitization operation in the region. At least six IEDs detonated as the forces moved through the dense terrain, according to police accounts. Ten of the injured were from the District Reserve Guard, while the 11th was Sub-Inspector Rudresh Singh from the CoBRA's 210th battalion. Among the District Reserve Guard personnel, Shailendra Ekka and Aiyatu Potam suffered leg injuries, and Sonam Kunjam, Ramesh Hemla, and Prakash Miccha sustained splinter wounds to their eyes.

The rugged landscape complicated evacuation efforts, but all 11 were airlifted to a hospital in Raipur for treatment. A doctor at the facility reported that three personnel underwent surgery,...