CoBRA Commando, Naxal Killed During Anti-Maoist Operation In Chhattisgarh

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Last Updated:May 22, 2025, 19:34 IST

An IAF chopper has been pressed into work to evacuate the injured, officials said.

Security forces launched a monolithic anti-Maoist cognition successful Chhattisgarh (ANI/Representative image)

A CoBRA commando of the CRPF and a Naxalite were killed during an anti-Maoist cognition successful Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur territory connected Thursday, officials said.

According to the officials, the cognition is ongoing successful the Tumrel colony country of the district. The cognition is being led by the 210th battalion of CRPF’s CoBRA and has troops from Chhattisgarh Police DRG and STF.

A CoBRA commando has besides been injured, they said.

An IAF chopper has been pressed into work to evacuate the injured, officials said.

The Commando Battalion for Resolute Action (CoBRA) is an elite jungle warfare portion wrong the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF). It plays a cardinal relation successful starring operations successful states affected by Left Wing Extremism.

The information forces are undertaking continuous operations successful the LWE-affected states arsenic portion of the Union government’s declaration to extremity the menace successful the state by March adjacent year.

The Bastar portion successful Chhattisgarh remains their halfway country of operation.

At slightest 27 Naxalites, including their apical commandant Nambala Keshav Rao (70) alias Basavaraju, the wide caput of the outlawed CPI (Maoist), were killed successful an brushwood with the District Reserve Guard (DRG) of Chhattisgarh Police successful the forests on the Narayanpur-Bijapur borderline connected Wednesday.

(With inputs from PTI)

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Chhattisgarh, India, India

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