Bhopal: The Security Forces official on Friday informed that CoBRA Commando of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) was martyred killed in an encounter with Naxals in the Sukma district of Chattisgarh.
Sukma Superintendent of Police Sunil Sharma said that “the gunfight took place in Palachalma forest under Kistaram police station limits when a team of the 208th battalion of the Commando Battalion for Resolute Action (CoBRA) was out on an anti-Naxal operation,”
SP further said that “Constable Virendra Singh, belonging to CoBRA’s 208th battalion, suffered a bullet injury on his chest and was shifted to the CRPF’s field hospital in Kistaram. Preparations were being made to airlift him to Raipur for further treatment, but he succumbed by then.”
(Vinayak)