Constable killed in Dantewada

A police constable was hacked to death allegedly by Maoists near a busy market in Katekalyan town of Dantewada district in Chhattisgarh on Friday.

Area-domination exercise An action team of four or five Maoists targeted a police platoon returning to camp from a routine area-domination exercise, Superintendent of Police, Dantewada, Kamlochan Kashyap said.

Rifle taken away

“Maoists attacked the jawans who were last in the convoy. Constable Shankar Joshi was killed in the attack, and the Maoists took away his SLR [self-loading rifle],” Mr. Kashyap said.

The deceased was the last in the platoon formation.