SUKMA: Two policemen were injured as Naxalites attacked them with sharp-edged weapons at a weekly market in Chhattisgarh’s insurgency-hit Sukma district on Sunday morning, an official said.
The incident took place when the police were deployed on security duty at the market at Jagargunda village, he said.
A small ‘action team’ of Naxalites (typically comprising four-five cadres) suddenly attacked the two personnel with sharp-edged weapons and then escaped, the police official said.
Other security personnel deployed there swung into action and launched a search for the attackers, he said.
Both the injured personnel, posted at Jagargunda police station, were admitted to a local hospital from where they would be shifted to Sukma for further medication, the official said.