Raipur, July 02: Top CRPF and Chhattisgarh police officers today visited the ambush site in Narayanpur district where 27 personnel of the central force were killed by Naxals.
CRPF chief Vikram Srivastava along with senior officials of the state police and the Union Home Ministry also talked to the villagers near the Daurai road area to understand the sequence of events that led to the deadly ambush.
The officials met the troops of the 39th Battalion that had come under the Maoist attack in the afternoon of June 29 and had alerted their base camp about the incident.
A large number of heavily-armed Maoists, perched on a hilltop, had opened fire with automatic weapons on a 63-member security contingent which was returning on foot from road opening duty. The dead included a CRPF Assistant Commandant Jatin Gulati.
–Agencies