Amit Shah To Visit Chhattisgarh Maoist Attack Site, Hold High-Level Meet

Bijapur Naxal Attack: 22 security personnel were killed and 31 others injured in the gunfight with Naxals along the border of Sukma and Bijapur districts on Saturday.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah will arrive in Chhattisgarh on Monday to chair a high-level meeting in connection with the Maoist attack in the state's Bastar region that claimed the lives of 22 security personnel, a senior official said. Mr Shah will reach the Jagdalpur airport (in Bastar district) at around 10.35 am, following which he will attend the wreath-laying ceremony to pay respect to the personnel killed in the attack, at the Police Lines here, he said. It will be Mr Shah's first visit to the Bastar region after assuming the charge of Union home minister, he said. In Jagdalpur, the wreath would be laid on the body of 14 security personnel, while tributes would be paid to the other jawans killed at the Bijapur district headquarters, the official said.