Kanker, May 3 -- Four police personnel, including an inspector of the District Reserve Guard (DRG), were killed after an improvised explosive device (IED) went off while they were trying to neutralise it during a demining operation in Chhattisgarh's Kanker district on Saturday, police said. The explosion occurred around 11.30 am in a forest area of Aadnar village under Chhotebethiya police station limits, near the Narayanpur district border, when a joint team of security personnel was conducting a demining operation to locate and defuse improvised explosive devices planted earlier by Naxalites, Inspector General of Police, Bastar Range Sundarraj Pattilingam told PTI. Based on the inputs received from surrendered Maoist cadres, security forces had recovered and neutralised hundreds of IEDs planted earlier by Naxalites across the Bastar range, he said. Inspector Sukhram Vatti (40) of the DRG, who was leading the team, constable Krishna Komra (35) of the district force, and constable Sanjay Gadhpale (29) of the Bastar Fighters succumbed to their injuries on the spot.Another injured constable, Parmanand Komra (29) of the Bastar Fighters, was airlifted to Raipur but died during treatment at a hospital.P4...