Two Chhattisgarh Police constables had been injured when Naxalites, dressed as civilians, attacked them with sharp weapons at a weekly market within the insurgency-hit Sukma district on Sunday morning, an official stated.
Naxalites additionally took away the service rifles of the 2 personnel following the incident which passed off when the police had been deployed on safety responsibility on the market in Jagargunda village, he stated.
A small ‘motion group’ of Naxalites (sometimes comprising four-five cadres) immediately attacked the 2 constables — Kartam Deva and Sodhi Kanna — with sharp edged weapons after which escaped after looting their Insas rifles, the police official stated.
Different safety personnel deployed there swung into motion and launched a seek for the attackers, he stated.
Each the injured constables, posted at Jagargunda police station, had been initially admitted to an area hospital. They had been later airlifted to Raipur and admitted to a non-public hospital within the state capital, the official stated.
Naxalites, dressed as civilians, have a number of occasions prior to now focused safety personnel on the weekly markets in Bastar division, comprising seven districts together with Sukma.
