Two Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel, including Malayali driver Vishnu R, were killed on Sunday in Chhattisgarh’s Sukma district when Naxalites detonated a truck using an improvised explosive device (IED). The explosion occurred around 3 pm near Timmapuram village, located between the Silger and Tekalgudem camps of security forces, more than 400 km from Raipur. Vishnu R, 35, from Palode in Thiruvananthapuram, served as a driver in the CRPF’s jungle warfare unit, CoBRA.
The attack targeted an advance party of the 201st unit of the Commando Battalion for Resolute Action (CoBRA), which had initiated a patrol from the Silger camp under the Jagargunda police station limits as part of its Road Opening Party duty towards Tekalgudem. The security personnel were traveling in a truck and on motorcycles when the Naxalites triggered the IED blast, resulting in the deaths of constable Shailendra, 29, and Vishnu R.
Vishnu R is survived by his parents, Raghuvar and Ajitha, who live at Anizham House, Palode Farm Junction. His wife, Nikhila, works as a nurse at Sreechitra Hospital, and they have two sons, Nirdev and Nirvin.
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