Bhubaneswar, May 3 (IANS) A paramilitary trooper was killed and another injured in a gunfight with Maoists in Orissa’s Kandhamal district, police said Tuesday.
The exchange of fire took place in a forest terrain of Daringbadi block, about 350 km from state capital Bhubaneswar Monday but it was known only after policemen returned from the site Tuesday, district’s Additional Superintendent of Police C.R. Das told IANS.
He said a team of about 20 security personnel, including local police, had gone on a patrol to the region and came under heavy attack by the rebels.
The trooper belonged to the Indian Reserve Battalion, he said.
–Indio-Asian News Service
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