Kanker, April 4: Just a few days before the nation votes for the first phase of Lok Sabha elections 2019, four Border Security Force (BSF) jawans were killed by Maoist during an encounter in Chhattisgarh's Kanker district on Thursday, April 4. In the incident, two BSF jawans were also injured.

"One jawan of the 114 battalion of BSF died while 2 others sustained injuries in an encounter that broke out between the security forces and Naxals," DIGP Anti Naxal Operation P Sundarraj told ANI. Three more jawans later succumbed to injuries.

On March 28, Maoists blew up the house of a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Anuj Kumar Singh in Bihar’s Gaya district. According to news agency ANI, Maoists used dynamite to blew up the home. In the attack, no one was injured. The Maoists also left anti-poll posters demanding people to boycott the upcoming elections in the state. Congress Supporting Maoists in Chhattisgarh for Poll Gains: BJP.

In a similar incident from Gaya district, on March 16, Maoists had damaged a government school building by using an improvised explosive device (IED). In the blast, some rooms and genset of the school building were damaged at Sondhana village. A joint operation has been launched by para-military and police officials to nab the Maoist.

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