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Two CRPF jawans of a CoBRA battalion suffered superior injuries successful abstracted improvised explosive instrumentality blasts wrong Saranda wood successful Jharkhand's West Singhbhum territory during a hunt cognition connected Sunday (December 14, 2025), a constabulary serviceman said.
The IEDs were suspected to person been planted by Maoists.
West Singhbhum Superintendent of Police Amit Renu told PTI that the 2 CoBRA battalion jawans were portion of a squad engaged successful the hunt cognition against Maoists successful the Saranda wood erstwhile the IEDs exploded.
"Both jawans person been airlifted to a backstage infirmary successful Ranchi for amended attraction aft receiving basal attraction astatine the CRPF barrack," the SP said.
The 2 injured men person been identified arsenic caput constable Alok Das and sepoy Narayan Das.
The SP said, "It is an enactment of desperation by the Maoists. We volition intensify the hunt operations successful the Saranda forest."
