Bijapur, July 8 -- Two Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) jawans were injured due to an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) blast in Chhattisgarh's Timapur-Murdanda road under the Awapalli police station area. The IED bomb was planted by the Maoists.

The CRPF jawans who were on duty when the incident took place were given initial first aid and brought to the district hospital in Bijapur for better treatment.

Further details are awaited.

Earlier, Chhattisgarh Deputy Chief Minister Vijay Sharma said that a uniform-bearing naxal was killed during a search operation by the security forces in the Bijapur district.

Speaking to ANI, Deputy CM Sharma said the search operations are currently underway in many parts of the district.

"Search oper...