Two jawans from Jagargunda police station were injured in a Naxal attack during a weekly market in Chhattisgarh’s Sukma, police reported. The incident occurred as the personnel were deployed for security duty in Jagargunda village. According to a Sukma police official, a small “action team” of Naxalites, typically comprising four to five members, launched a sudden assault with sharp-edged weapons before fleeing the scene.
The injured jawans received immediate first aid, and an intensive search operation is now underway as security forces attempt to locate the attackers.
“The two were walking some distance away from the others when a small action team (of Maoists) attacked them. When they fell down, the Maoists looted their weapons and fled from the spot. There were about four-five Maoists, and they were on foot,” an IE report quoted an official as saying.
This incident comes amid heightened Naxal activity in the region. Just days earlier, in Bijapur district, a 35-year-old man named Dinesh Pujar was killed by suspected Naxalites on suspicion of being a police informant. Meanwhile, in a recent encounter in Dantewada, police reported the deaths of at least 38 Naxal cadres in the dense Abujhmad forests near the Dantewada-Narayanpur border, signaling increased conflict in Chhattisgarh’s interior.