CoBRA jawan hurt in pressure bomb blast

RAIPUR: A CoBRA jawan was on Friday injured in a pressure bomb blast, laid by naxals, in Chhattisgarh's insurgency-hit Bijapur district.
The incident took place around 11:50 am while a team of Commando Battalion for Resolute Action's (CoBRA's) 204th battalion was carrying out patrolling under Basaguda police station limits, a CRPF official told PTI. Security forces were out on the operation since the morning to ensure security to Basaguda-Tarrem under-construction road, located around 450 km from here.
While they were cordoning off a forested patch near Tarrem, a jawan inadvertently stepped over the pressure improvised explosive device (IED) connection, triggering the blast that left him injured, he said.