Chhattisgarh Naxal attack: Union Home Minister Amit Shah pays tribute to martyrs- In pics

Union Home Minister Amit Shah attended a wreath-laying ceremony on Monday (April 5) to pay homage to the security personnel who lost their lives in a gun battle with Naxals in Chhattisgarh's Bastar region.

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Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel laid the wreath on the mortal remains of the 14 security personnel.

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Twenty-two security personnel were killed and 31 others injured in the gunfight with Naxals between Jonaguda and Tekalguda villages which took place along the border of Sukma and Bijapur districts in Chhattisgarh on Saturday (April 3). 

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Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel chaired a high-level meeting at the Police Coordination Centre with top officials in Jagdalpur. Shah will leave for the Basaguda camp of the CRPF in Bijapur in a chopper and will have interaction and lunch with the CRPF and state police personnel there, PTI quoted an official as saying. 

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Out of the total 22 casualties, the CRPF lost eight men, including seven commandos of the CoBRA battalion (CRPF's elite unit) and one jawan of the Bastariya battalion, eight of the other deceased were from the District Reserve Guard (DRG) and six from the Special Task Force (STF). One jawan is still missing, PTI reported. 

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