Jamshedpur/Jhargram: A CRPF jawan of the specialised COBRA unit was killed and a Deputy Commandant injured in a fierce encounter with Maoists at Chiklam village in Jharkhand's Naxal-hit Ghatsila sub-division today.
DIG (Kolhan Range, Jharkhand) Md Nehal said police had received information that a huge Maoist squad had entered the village from the dense Dalma forest last night.
CRPF forces and District Armed Police (DAP) from Jharkhand together with a Cobra unit, CRPF 69 battalion personnel, CISF and police officials from Jhargram in West Bengal launched a joint operation cordoning off the village since early morning, DIG (Kolhan Range) and Sub-divisional Police Officer, Jhargram, Vivek Varma said.
even afterwards, the SDPO said.
Mr Varma said security forces had cordoned off the area but had not yet commenced flushing out operations as the rebels were still holed up in the village.
Casualty on the Maoist side was not immediately known, the official said.
DIG (Kolhan Range, Jharkhand) Md Nehal said police had received information that a huge Maoist squad had entered the village from the dense Dalma forest last night.
CRPF forces and District Armed Police (DAP) from Jharkhand together with a Cobra unit, CRPF 69 battalion personnel, CISF and police officials from Jhargram in West Bengal launched a joint operation cordoning off the village since early morning, DIG (Kolhan Range) and Sub-divisional Police Officer, Jhargram, Vivek Varma said.
even afterwards, the SDPO said.
Mr Varma said security forces had cordoned off the area but had not yet commenced flushing out operations as the rebels were still holed up in the village.
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Casualty on the Maoist side was not immediately known, the official said.
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