Three Special Task Force (STF) personnel were injured on Tuesday, one of them seriously, when Maoists triggered a pipe- bomb blast in Chhattisgarh’s insurgency-hit Sukma district, police said.
The incident took place at around 3 p.m. in the forests under Fulbagdi police station limits when a joint team of security forces was returning after an anti-Maoist operation, a senior police official told PTI.
Separate teams of security forces, comprising CRPF, STF, DRG (District Reserve Guard) and district force, had launched the operation since Monday in the interior forests of Sukma, around 400 km from here, the official said.
Maoists are known to mount attacks on I-Day.
