Raipur: In the second Maoist attack on ITBP personnel in Narayanpur Bastar district in a month, two officers were killed in an ambush attack.
AK-47 and bulletproof vests are looted.
A team of the 45th Battalion of the ITBP is in the regional domination operation when it arrives under fire only 600m from the Kademeta security camp in Chotedonger.
“The action team” Maois has put an ambush at a thick dense forest, said Bastar IG P Sundarraj said.
The ITBP man took a position and fired again, but the assistant commander Sudhakar Shinde from Maharashtra and Assistant Sub-Inspector Gurmukh Singh from Punjab was killed.
Reinforcements were sent to the place and the body of the officer was evacuated.
The police said they would get detailed ambush so security personnel returned to the base with corpses.
The meeting site is around 140 km from Jagdalpur and 270km South Raipur.
On July 20, Maois killed an ITBP police officer and injured an officer who was part of the road opening party for MLA convoys in Narayanpur.
2 ITBP officers were killed in an attack of Bastar Maoist
