Gariaband:A jawan of the Indo Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) was killed in a blast triggered by Naxals in Chhattisgarh's Gariaband district where polling for the second phase of assembly elections took place on Friday, police said.
The incident took place near Bade Gobra village under Mainpur police station area when a polling team escorted by security personnel was returning after the voting was over, a senior police official said. Polling across 70 constituencies in the state was held from 8 am to 5 pm. But in nine polling booths in the Naxal-affected Bindranawagarh constituency in Gariaband district, voting was held from 7 am to 3 pm for security reasons.