A CRPF jawan was killed in an IED blast during an anti-Naxal operation in the dense Saranda forest near the Odisha-Jharkhand border on Saturday, officials said. The martyred jawan, Assistant Sub-Inspector Satyavan Kumar Singh, hailed from Kushinagar, Uttar Pradesh, and was part of the CRPF’s 134th battalion. He was engaged in a joint operation with the Odisha Police, Jharkhand Police, and CRPF to locate and recover explosives allegedly looted by Maoists.
CRPF jawan killed in IED blast during anti-Naxal operation at Odisha-Jharkhand border
