Gidhni Four EFR jawans were killed in a surprise assault by Maoists while they were patrolling near Gidhni Bazaar in the Jhargram sub-division of West Midnapore district on Sunday, barely hours after West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee left after a two-day visit to the violence-scarred district.
IG (Western Range) Kuldip Singh said the EFR jawans were patrolling near a police camp close to a school in the area under Jamboni police station.
IGP (Law and Order) Surajit Kar Purakayastha said there were seven jawans when the Naxals opened fire. Four died on the spot while three others managed to escape. They returned soon and retaliated.
As the exchange of fire was on, some more jawans from the nearby camp joined, forcing the Naxals to flee into the jungles. The Naxals looted the arms of the four slain jawans.
Senior police officials reached the spot soon after the encounter ended, Purakyastha said.
On Saturday, the Maoists had killed three youths hours before the Chief Minister's arrival in the district.
The bullet-riddled bodies of Lakhi Das, Jayram Mandi and Manoranjan, all Jharkhand Party activists, were found on a road in Kusbani jungle, about 70 km from Midnapore town.
The Naxals had also shot at and injured a former Marxist legislator.
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