Rourkela: A security personnel injured in a powerful IED blast during an anti-Maoist operation in the dense Saranda forest of Jharkhand on Friday succumbed to his injuries while undergoing treatment at a private hospital in Rourkela early Saturday morning.

The martyred jawan has been identified as Head Constable Mahendra Laskar of the CRPF’s 60th Battalion. He breathed his last around 4 a.m. at Apollo Hospital, Rourkela, informed Commandant Ambuj Muthal.

Three personnel — CRPF Inspector KK Mishra, ASI Ramakrishna Gagrai, and Head Constable Mahendra Laskar — had sustained injuries when an improvised explosive device (IED) planted by Maoists detonated in the Babudera area of the Samtha region on Friday afternoon. District police, CRPF, and other security forces were conducting a joint ant

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