Raipur: Seven CRPF jawans, slain in a landmine explosion by Naxals at Melawada in Chhattisgarh’s south Bastar district of Dantewada on March 30, were on a humanitarian mission to arrange urgent medical aid for sick “Scout”, the sniffer dog of the paramilitary, official ground report said.
“Scout was hit by heatstroke and needed urgent medical attention. A team of seven CRPF jawans was carrying the bomb-sniffing combat dog in a Tata 709 van from CRPF’s Bacheli camp to Bhusraj Ghati, the headquarters of the 230 battalion of the paramilitary in Dantewada district. Besides, providing medical aid to the Labrador, the team was to arrange a cooler for the dog from the Bhusraj Ghati camp”, a preliminary investigation into the incident has revealed.
The CRPF team was also supposed to pick up two of their colleagues who returned from “Holi” leave on the way to drop them in the Bhusraj Ghati camp. The vehicle along with CRPF jawans was blasted to smithereens by a landmine explosion triggered by Maoists at Melawada.
