C'garh Two persons injured as Naxals blow up vehicle with IED

    Raipur, Dec 1 (PTI) Two persons were injured after
Naxals blew up their vehicle using an improvised explosive
device (IED) in Chhattisgarh's Bijapur district on Tuesday, a
police official said.
    The incident took place near Rajpenta village between
Basaguda and Tarrem villages around 9 am when the two victims
were heading towards Tarrem in a multi-utility vehicle (MUV),
the official told PTI.
    The vehicle was mangled due to the impact of the
blast, he said.
    The injured persons were identified as Mohammed Iqbal
Ansari, the vehicle's owner, and Balram Pradhan, a motor
mechanic, he said.
    As per preliminary information, Ansari was taking
Pradhan along with him to fix his truck that had stopped near
Tarrem due to some technical fault, he said.
    After being alerted about the blast, a police team
rushed to the spot, located around 450 km from the state
capital Raipur, and admitted the injured persons to a local
hospital, he said.
    The police suspect that the rebels might have planned
to target security forces, but mistakenly attacked the
civilian vehicle. PTI TKP
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