Chhattisgarh Naxal attack: Amit Shah to pay tribute to jawans at Bijapur encounter site

Union Home Minister Amit Shah will pay tribute to jawans who were ambushed by the Naxals near the Bijapur-Sukma border in Chhattisgarh on Saturday. Amit Shah will pay tribute to the martyred jawans at the Chhattisgarh encounter site in Bijapur on Monday.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah will pay tribute to jawans who were ambushed by the Naxals near the Bijapur-Sukma border in Chhattisgarh on Saturday. Amit Shah will pay tribute to the martyred jawans at the Chhattisgarh encounter site in Bijapur on Monday. Bodies of 20 security personnel were recovered from the jungles of Bijapur in Chhattisgarh, raising the death toll to 22 in the worst ever Naxal attack in four years that resulted from an ambush by some 400 insurgents who surrounded the jawans from three sides and rained on them machinegun fire as well as IEDs for several hours. Of the 22 fatalities, the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) lost eight men, while the local police lost 14 jawans. One soldier is still missing and a search operation has been launched.