Bijapur, April 19, 2022 (PPI-OT):Four Indian police personnel were injured after Naxal rebels opened fire on a police camp in Indian state of Chhattisgarh. A group of Naxals opened fire on the Jaigur police camp located under the Kutru police station limits in Bijapur district, Inspector General of Police (Bastar range) Sundarraj P told media men.
The rebels fled after the forces retaliated, he added. Four personnel, three of them belonging to the district police and another from the Chhattisgarh Armed Force (CAF), were injured in the firing,” the IG said.
The injured personnel were shifted to the Bijapur district hospital and later two of them, Head Constables Tukeshwar Dhruv and Om Prakash Diwan Dhruv of the district police, were airlifted to Raipur for treatment, he said, adding that all of them were stated to be out of danger.
Meanwhile, six people returning from a wedding ceremony died while four others were seriously injured after their jeep collided head-on with a truck in Gauriganj area of the district in Indian state Utter Pradesh.
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