RAIPUR: Two security personnel lost their lives and four were injured in an IED blast during an anti-Maoist operation in forests of Bijapur district of insurgency-hit Bastar region on the intervening night of Wednesday and Thursday.
The injured jawans were being airlifted and brought to Raipur for treatment.
Bijapur police said that a joint team of Special Task Force, District Reserve Guards, CoBRA, Central Reserve Police Force had gone out on special anti-Maoist operation on July 16.
There were specific inputs about the presence and movement of Maoists from Darbha Division, Western Bastar Division and Military Number 2 of the organization, in the forests of Dantewada, Sukma and Bijapur.
During the search on July 17 night in Tarrem region, an IED was triggered by Maoists targeting the security forces leading to fatal injuries to two jawans of STF and four wounded with splinters.