Six security personnel were killed in an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) blast, when their vehicle was passing through Cholnar village, in Chhattisgarh's Dantewada district. Among the five dead, three were from the Chhattisgarh Armed Force and two from the district police force. Two more personnel have also been injured in the IED blast. The security personnel who are seriously injured have been airlifted to a hospital in Raipur, the state capital.