Chhattisgarh Encounter: A head constable of District Reserve Guard (DRG) was killed in an encounter with Naxalites in Chhattisgarh's Narayanpur district on Wednesday, reported PTI citing officials.
According to the official, the gunfight broke out at nearly 1:00 PM when a joint team of security forces conducting an anti-Naxal operation in the forest on the border between the Sonpur and Kohkameta police station areas in Abujhmad.
District Reserve Guard (DRG) and Border Security Force personnel were involved in the operation launched on Tuesday. The intermittent exchange of fire lasted till late evening, the official said.
"Birendra Kumar Sori (36), head constable of DRG Narayanpur, was killed in the exchange of fire", he said.
In 2010, Soorihadjoined the Narayanpur district police as a constable joined the Narayanpur district police as a constable. Eight years later, in 2018, he was promoted to the post of head constable.
The body of the jawan was being shifted out of the forest, said the official, adding that a search operation was still underway.
In another separate incident that took place on Wednesday in Jammu-Kashmir, a
A soldier from the Territorial Army was shot in the leg by terrorists in the Tral area of Awantipora in Pulwama. According to news agency ANI, the jawan was on leave and had come home. Soon after he was shot in his leg, he was rushed to the hospital for treatment.
"Terrorists opened fire on an army jawan in the Tral area of Awantipora in Pulwama. The jawan was on leave and had come home. He was shot in the leg and was immediately rushed to the hospital for treatment. His condition is said to be stable. The area has been cordoned off by security forces," reports news agency ANI, quoting official sources.
On Tuesday too, a terrorist involved in the recent killing of six workers and a doctor at a private company's housing camp in Ganderbal, Jammu and Kashmir, was shot dead by security forces in an encounter.
(With inputs from agengy)