RAIPUR: Indian Special Task Force (STF) jawan was today injured when IED,planted by Naxals, went off in Chhattisgarh’s insurgency-hit Bijapurdistrict, police said, PTI has reported.

The incident took place near Tippapuram under Pamed police station limits,some 500 kms from here, when a “road opening party” of security forces wasoverseeing the construction of a road from Tippapuram and Pamed, anofficial said.

“While security personnel were cordoning off a nearby forest, an STF jawanaccidentally stepped on a pressure improvised explosive device (IED)planted by the Maoists.

It exploded on impact and injured him,” the official said.

He added that the injured jawan was being evacuated from the area andreinforcements had been rushed in.