Bhubaneswar/ Chaibasa, June 14: A CRPF jawan was killed in an explosion during an anti-Naxal operation at the Odisha-Jharkhand border on Saturday, police said.
Assistant Sub-Inspector Satyavan Kumar Singh, who hailed from Kushinagar in UP, was part of a team that was searching the Saranda forest for explosives robbed by Maoists from near a stone quarry in Odisha’s Sundergarh district on May 27, they said.
The search was being conducted by a joint team of the Odisha Police, Jharkhand Police and CRPF when the Improvised Explosive Device (IED) went off, they added.
Singh belonged to the 134th battalion of the CRPF, police said. (PTI)
