Maoists open fire at CRPF commandos in Chhattisgarh, none hurt

TIL Desk/National/Ranchi/ Maoists on Wednesday fired at a Central Reserve Police Force commando team alighting from a helicopter at a remote camp in Chhattisgarh during a massive anti- operation being undertaken by security forces along the state’s border with Telangana, officials said.

A joint team of multiple forces are undertaking the offensive to target some senior and most-wanted Maoist commanders, official sources said. “A CRPF CoBRA team was being sent on a chopper to a forward operating base that is located along the Bijapur and Sukma districts of Chhattisgarh abutting the Telangana border.

An exchange of fire took place between the commandos and Maoists when they were alighting from the helicopter. The Naxalites had to flee,” the CRPF (Raipur sector) said in a statement issued late evening in state capital Raipur. There has been no harm to the CoBRA (Commando Battalion for Resolute Action) commandos even as the forces are trying to ascertain the damage inflicted on the Naxalites, the statement said.