Raipur, Apr 6 (PTI) In the deadliest attack on security forces, Naxals trapped and gunned down 73 security personnel during a joint "Operation Green Hunt" offensive by forces this morning in the thick forests of Mukrana in Dantewada district of Chattisgarh, one of the strongholds of Maoists. The incident took place between 6 AM and 7 AM when nearly 80 personnel comprising CRPF and state police were returning after opening a road for the troops to begin an operation against Naxals.
While 72 of those killed were CRPF personnel, including a deputy and an assistant commandant, one was a head constable of the district police. Dantewada Superintendent of Police Amresh Mishra said the Naxals first blew up a vehicle carrying the CRPF personnel near Chintalnar-Tarmetla village in the district.
Immediately after the blast, the CRPF personnel and a few police personnel tried to take cover when they came under heavy fire from hundreds of Naxals, well entrenched on the adjacent hillock. The CRPF team had been camping in the interiors of Tarmetla jungles for the last three days as part of a combing operation and area domination exercise, Mishra said.
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