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CRPF Head Constable Dies After Jharkhand IED Blasts as Security Forces Intensify Search

Operations have been expanded across Maoist-affected zones during the group’s declared Resistance Week.

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Overview

  • Head constable Mahendra Laskar died during treatment in Rourkela after twin IED explosions struck a joint police-CRPF team in Saranda forest, West Singhbhum, on October 10.
  • CRPF inspector K.K. Mishra and ASI Ram Krishna Gogi were injured in the blasts and remain under medical care after evacuation to a hospital in Rourkela.
  • Laskar was cremated on October 12 in his native Kuwariati village in Assam’s Nagaon district, where state officials and CRPF leaders paid tribute.
  • Police cordoned off the Babudih/Jaraikela area, sent reinforcements, and launched intensified combing operations, with statewide security bolstered by 12 CRPF battalions and 20 JAP/IRB groups.
  • In a separate incident on October 11, a CoBRA commando sustained minor injuries when an IED planted by Naxalites detonated during a patrol in Bijapur, Chhattisgarh.