Bijapur: A District Reserve Guard (DRG) jawan was injured on Monday when an improvised explosive device (IED) he was trying to defuse exploded in Chhattisgarh's Bijapur district, a police official said.
The incident took place at around 5:35 pm near Bade Tungali village following an encounter between a DRG team and Naxalites following a tip off about the presence of ultras, he said.
"When security personnel were cordoning off the area, a gunfight broke out between the two sides. After the exchange of fire stopped, security personnel recovered an IED. Jawan Shankar Paret was injured when the IED exploded while he was defusing it," he said. Paret has been hospitalised and is out of danger, the official said.
Earlier, an Army jawan died of a gunshot wound after his service weapon went off accidentally in Punjab's Bathinda, police said, adding that there is no connection with the Bathinda military station killings a day ago.
The Army said that the incident took place in Bathinda Military Station on Wednesday evening. The Army added that it has "no connection" with the incident that took place at the Bathinda Military Station yesterday in which four jawans succumbed to injuries.
The Army said that the soldier was on sentry duty with his service weapon and the case "purportedly seems to be of attempted suicide". He was shifted to a hospital where he succumbed to his injuries.
"The weapon and cartridge case from the same weapon was found next to the soldier. He was immediately evacuated to the Military Hospital but succumbed to his injuries," the Army said. The soldier had returned from leave on April 11.
