CoBRA jawan injured in an exchange of fire with Naxals in Sukma district, Chhattisgarh

Raipur: A CoBRA jawan was today injured in an exchange of fire with Naxals in the dense forests of Chhattisgarh’s insurgency-hit Sukma district, police said.

The skirmish took place in the wee hours when a team of CRPF’s elite CoBRA (Commando Battalion for Resolute Action) 201st battalion was conducting an anti-Naxal operation in the interiors of Chintalnar police outpost a Naxal hotbed, Sukma Additional Superintendent of Police Jitendra Shukla told.