Mumbai: Officials said that eleven CRPF and the state police were injured in an IED blast by Maoists in Serekela Kharsawan district of Jharkhand on Tuesday.
The explosion took place at around 5 am in the morning when a joint team of the CRPF Special Jungle War Unit, Cobra and the State Police was conducting an operation in the forests of Kuchai area of the district, he said
According to officials, the impregnable explosive device (IED) is susceptible to the dirt track below
He said that eight of the injured soldiers belong to the cobra and the state police, who have been airlifted to the state capital Ranchi.
Officials said that the leadership of the Joint Party was doing the 209th battalion of the Central Reserve Police Force Commando Battalion for Resolute Action (COBRA), deployed in the state for the anti-Naxal campaign.
