- Rajesh
Tyagi/ 25.4.2017
26 Jawans of
a company of 74th Battalion of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) have been
killed in an encounter with Naxalites in Sukma District of Chhattisgarh, last
morning. The CRPF Company was deployed to oversee the construction of a road
which Maoists had been resisting.
The attack
is the second major Naxal attack in Sukma District of Chhattisgarh this year. The
Media has put it as worst naxal attack in the last 7 years, drawing parallel
with a similar attack 7 years before in which 76 CRPF personnel were killed.
In a
separate attack carried out by Naxals at the same time, at least three CRPF
jawans have been injured in Jharkhand’s Daltonganj, but the incident has paled
in the background in the face of far bigger Sukma violence.
Since 2005,
1911 security personnel have lost lives in Naxal attacks.
