Security personnel inspect the site of an IED blast in Kistaram area of Chhattisgarh’s Sukma district on Tuesday. (PTI Photo) Security personnel inspect the site of an IED blast in Kistaram area of Chhattisgarh’s Sukma district on Tuesday. (PTI Photo)Nine CRPF personnel were killed and two critically injured Tuesday after Maoists triggered a powerful improvised explosive device (IED) under a Mine Protected Vehicle (MPV) in the Kistaram area of Sukma. Road opening had been carried out only an hour ago as SP Sukma was visiting Palodi,” CRPF DG RR Bhatnagar said. Both were earlier suspected to have planned the ambush on CRPF jawans near Bhejji in Sukma last year, they said.

Source: Indian Express March 13, 2018 12:49 UTC