Chhattisgarh CoBRA commando killed in encounter with Naxals in Sukma
Raipur Dec 31 PTI A commando of the CRPFs jungle warfare unit CoBRA was killed in an encounter with Naxals in Chhattisgarhs Sukma district on Friday a police official said The gunfight took place in Palachalma forest under Kistaram police station limits when a team of the 208th battalion of the Commando Battalion for Resolute Action CoBRA was out on an anti-Naxal operation Sukma Superintendent of Police Sunil Sharma told PTI When the patrolling team was cordoning off the forest located over 450 kilometres from here an exchange of fire took place he said Constable Virendra Singh belonging to CoBRAs 208th battalion suffered a bullet injury on his chest and was shifted to the CRPFs field hospital in Kistaram Preparations were being made to airlift him to Raipur for further treatment but he succumbed by then the SP said Sukma is part of the states Left Wing Extremism-hit south Bastar region where the Central Reserve Police Force and its CoBRA units are extensively deployed to quell the Maoist menace PTI TKP BNM BNM BNM
Raipur Dec 31 PTI A commando of the CRPFs jungle warfare unit CoBRA was killed in an encounter with Naxals in Chhattisgarhs Sukma district on Friday a police official said The gunfight took place in Palachalma forest under Kistaram police station limits when a team of the 208th battalion of the Commando Battalion for Resolute Action CoBRA was out on an anti-Naxal operation Sukma Superintendent of Police Sunil Sharma told PTI When the patrolling team was cordoning off the forest located over 450 kilometres from here an exchange of fire took place he said Constable Virendra Singh belonging to CoBRAs 208th battalion suffered a bullet injury on his chest and was shifted to the CRPFs field hospital in Kistaram Preparations were being made to airlift him to Raipur for further treatment but he succumbed by then the SP said Sukma is part of the states Left Wing Extremism-hit south Bastar region where the Central Reserve Police Force and its CoBRA units are extensively deployed to quell the Maoist menace PTI TKP BNM BNM BNM
