A 24-year-old woman was injured when an improvised explosive device (IED) planted by Naxalites went off in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district, police said on Friday.
The incident took place around 3 pm on Thursday when the victim, identified as Lachhi Madvi, a resident of Chuchkonta village under Farsegarh police station limits, had gone to a nearby forest to graze her cattle, a police official here said. She inadvertently stepped over the pressure IED triggering the blast causing injuries on her legs, he said.
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Source: MSN News
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