19.1.13

Reds attack IAF helicopter


An IAF helicopter, on a rescue mission to evacuate an injured CRPF jawan and the body of another, was forced to make an emergency landing in a field in the densely forested Sukma district of Chhattisgarh after it came under fire from Maoists on Friday.
The Mi-17 helicopter, which had taken off from Jagdalpur at about 4.45 pm, was about to land in Timmadwada to pick up the CRPF jawans, one injured while the other dead following an encounter with leftwing extremists in the Naxal stronghold, when it came under fire around 5.20 pm.

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