The Bastar Range Inspector General of Police said that today’s fire exchange happened when our team from 201 battalions of CoBRA and 150 battalions of CRPF Jawan was on searching operation wherein last 3 years ago, in 2021, our 23 jawans were killed around 1 pm at noon.
Later in the day, Jawans/security forces found the bomb with a different weight in the Chhattisgarh district named Dantewada. The 1st bomb weighs 5 kilograms and the other weight around 3 kilograms. As police said these 2 bombs were planted in the dirt and placed in the same area.
They planned to place this explosive device because of patrolling by security in that place. later on, harmful devices were defused by the bomb disposal squad(BDS) and another big tragedy was averted.