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Nation Posted On Friday, November 13, 2009 | United News of India
Bhubaneswar, Nov 13:
Armed Maoists today targeted a CRPF convoy in Malkangiri district, killing CRPF Deputy Commandant Bhupender Singh, one Head Constable and the driver of the vehicle near MV 66 village under Kalimela police station.
Malkangiri Superintendent of Police S Bhoi said at least 21 CRPF vehicles carrying the jawans left the MV 79 this morning for Koraput from where the CRPF jawans were scheduled to move to Jharkhand.
However, in between MV23 and MV 66 villages under Kalimela police station limit, the first CRPF vehicle carrying Deputy Commandant Bhupender Singh and senior Havildar Sunil Kumar was exploded in the landmines, laid by the Maoists killing both Mr Singh and Mr Sunil besides driver Narendra Kumar on the spot.
The other 20 CRPF vehicles, which were in the convoy after the Deputy Commandant's vehicle, had escaped from the Maoist target.
Mr Bhoi said firing continued for some time in the area by the CRPF jawans and an intensive combing operation launched in the area to nab the Maoists involved in the landmine explosion.
Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik desribed the killing of the three CRPF personnel, including a Deputy Commandant, as a tragic incident and said police were on their job to apprehend the Maoists involved in the gruesome incident.
Police said the explosion was so powerful that the vehicle was blown up killing all the three occupants on the spot. The CRPF jawans travelling in other vehicles however, escaped unhurt. The bodies of the three CRPF personnel were later brought to Malkangiri police station for post-mortems, police said.
Earlier, on July 16, 2008, also 17 CRPF jawans were killed and the anti-landmine vehicle carrying them blown up to pieces during a landmine explosion in MV 126 village in Malkangiri district.
In another incident on June 18 last, nine jawans were killed in the landmine explosion at Jogipali in the undivided Korapout district by the Maoists.
On July 17 last also one CRPF jawan was killed in the landmine explosion during a combing operation in Sundargarh district.
In the wake of the series of Maoists attack the state government had decided to take the assistance of the Army in constructing the bridges in the naxalite-hit areas in the Southern Orissa.
State Works Secretary Subhendu Kumar Ray said in the first phase the Army's help would be taken to construct the Gurupriya bridge which would provide road communication link to over 150 villages cut off form the rest of the world by road in the Malkangiri district.
The government had already floated tender twice but the contractors fearing the Maoist attack had not been able to execute the work.
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