Raipur: Two women and a minor girl were killed while four others injured when a pressure landmine, suspected to have been laid by Naxals, went off in a dense forest pocket of Chhattisgarh s insurgency-hit Narayanpur district, police said today.
“The incident took place last evening in the forests of Narayanpur police station limits,” Inspector General of Police (Bastar Range) SRP Kalluri told PTI.
As per preliminary information, the residents of Tumnaar village including some women and their children, were passing through the area where road construction work was underway between Sonpur and Kurushnar villages, he said.
They inadvertently stepped over the pressure IED (improvised explosive device) connection near Godagaon village forest, triggering the blast, killing two women and the 15-year-old girl, the IG said.
