Four policemen killed in landmine blast

By Our Staff Reporter

RAJAHMUNDRY, APRIL 19. One reserve police inspector and three constables - one from the SSF (Special Security Force also known as Grey Hounds) and the other two from the district police - were killed and a reserve sub-inspector was grievously injured in a landmine blast in the interior agency village Chintakarrapalem in Y.Ramavaram mandal of East Godavari district, about 90 km from here, on Thursday.

The injured were being taken to hospital. The explosion occurred at around 3.30 pm.

The landmine was reported to have been triggered by banned People's War Group extremists. According to information reaching the district police headquarters at Kakinada, the police party was carrying on combing operations in the interior area when the landmine, kept between Singavaram and Chintakarrapalem, was blasted. One of the constables who died in the blast was identified as Anjaiah.

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