CRPF trooper, policeman killed in Jharkhand shootout
Ranchi, June 7: A CRPF trooper and a Jharkhand policeman were killed during a shootout with Maoists in Khuti district on Thursday, officials said.
The incident occurred near Jamro village around 6.50 a.m. when a joint team of the Central Reserve Police Force's 209 CoBRA Battalion and Jharkhand Police was on a search and area dominance operation.
CRPF trooper Utpal Rabha, 27, died on the spot in the firing by Maoists while the policeman, whose name is yet to be announced, succumbed to his injuries later, a CRPF official said.
A police officer said the gun battle lasted three hours and that some Maoist guerrillas also sustained bullet injuries.
The bodies have reached Ranchi, the CRPF said. Security forces were continuing to look for the Maoists.
The CRPF said that Rabha, from North Garo Hills in Meghalaya, joined it in 2011.
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Student killed, several injured as school picnic bus overturns
Nagpur (PTI): A student was killed and several students and teachers were injured as the bus carrying them to a picnic spot overturned near here on Tuesday morning, police said.
The accident took place when students and teachers of Saraswati High School in Shankar Nagar area here were heading for a picnic spot in neighbouring Wardha district in five buses.
One of the buses, with some 50 persons on board, overturned near Deoli Pendhari village on Hingani Road in a hilly section on the outskirts of the city, said an official of Hingna police station.
The deceased boy was a Class 7 student, he said, without disclosing the name. A girl and a teacher sustained severe injuries and were rushed to the All India Institute Of Medical Sciences, Nagpur, while others were taken to a nearby rural hospital.
Investigation is underway to determine the cause of the accident, police said.
