Five bodies of CoBRA personnel recovered from Dantewada forest
Dantewada:
Five more bodies of personnel of the elite anti-Naxal force Commando Battalion for Resolute Action (CoBRA)
have been recovered from the Dantewada Forests in Chattisgarh. A major offensive was launched against the Naxals following specific intelligence inputs about them
being present in the forest. According to CoBRA sources, the bodies of Assistant
Commandant Rakesh Chaurasia, a sub-inspector, a head constable and two constables
were recovered during a combing operation in the thick forests near Singamadagu.
On Friday, Assistant Commandant Manoranjan Singh was killed during a gunbattle.
So far, the death toll has been pegged at six. Security forces also unearthed
an arms manufacturing unit. Nine Naxals have been killed during Operation Red
Hunt so far.
