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| Martyred CRPF jawans’ bodies reach Jammu, shifted to native places | | |  EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, May 19:
The bodies of five Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel, who
were killed in ambush by the Maoists in the insurgency-riddled
Dantewada district of Chhattisgarh on May 17, reached here this
afternoon.
An Improvised Explosive Device (IED) blast had rocked one of the three
vehicles of the patrolling convoy of CRPF late Tuesday evening on
National Highway 221, six kilometers away from Sukma town in Dantewada
district, some 500 km south of state capital Raipur.
It was a powerful blast that ripped through a Tavera vehicle carrying
paramilitary personnel.
Five men of the CRPF's second battalion were killed on the spot and
two died a few hours later. One of them got injured in the powerful
blast.
“The coffins carrying bodies of five CPRF jawans including four
belonging to Jammu province and one from Kangra district in Himachal
Pradesh, reached here at Jammu airport,” Vinay Kumar Anand, CRPF
official spokesman told reporters.
He said the jawans were killed on late Tuseday evening when their
vehicle, which was on way from Kerlapal to Sukma was blown by an IED
fitted on the road by the naxalities.
“There were eight jawans travelling in the ill fated vehicle out of
which seven were killed and one was injured," the spokesman said.
The vehicle was tossed several feet up in the air by the powerful
blast. The Maoists fled away into the nearby forests after hitting the
convoy.
The deceased jawanss have been identified as Surinder Singh, resident
of Sondar, Basohli, district Kathua, Abdul Qayum, son of Syed
Mohammad, resident of Shahdara Haveli, district Poonch, Rashpal Singh,
son of Thakur Dass, resident of Nagrota, district Jammu, Sanjay Kumar,
resident of Delriyan, Mirpur Sidhar, Akhnoor, district Jammu and
Sanjeev Singh Pathania, Noorpur, district Kangra, Himachal Pradesh
while one of the injured Narinder Gandhi, also belonged to Jammu.
The mood at Jammu airport was sombre as the family members of the
martyred jawans also reached there to receive the bodies.
Senior officials from police, CRPF and civil administration also
reached the airport and paid their tributes to the martyrs by laying
wreaths.
Later, the bodies of the martyred CRPF personnel were shifted to their
native places for the last rites.
It is pertinent to mention here that last year also there were some
major attacks on men in uniform in the region by the Maoists.
On May 17 of 2010, a landmine blast had killed more than 40 people,
including civilians and Special Police Officials (SPOs).
The attack had occurred just a month after Dantewada witnessed the
killing of 76 CRPF men in April that year.
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