IED blast kills CRPF jawan near Jharkhand border in Odisha | India News

IED blast kills CRPF jawan near Jharkhand border in Odisha

ROURKELA/RANCHI: A CRPF assistant sub-inspector was killed in an IED explosion throughout an space domination train in Odisha’s Sundargarh district near the border with Jharkhand early on Saturday. Satyaban Kumar Singh (34), from Kishinagar in Uttar Pradesh, was critically injured when the IED, suspected to have been planted by Maoists, detonated round 6amin Saranda forest. Singh, who was posted with CRPF’s 134 Battalion, died whereas present process therapy at a non-public hospital in Rourkela.The operation was launched following intelligence inputs about Maoist motion. A joint staff of CRPF and particular operations group was conducting the operation when the IED detonated. The space has been beneath heightened safety following the looting of round 5 tonnes of explosives by Maoists from the Banko stone quarry on May 27. Security forces have since recovered about 4 tonnes of the stolen explosives.