"Special Task Force jawan Angad Kumar was killed and another jawan Yashwant injured in an exchange of fire between a joint party of security forces and ultras in the forests of Chintagufa and Dornapal police station area," a police official told PTI over phone.
"The joint contingent of district force, STF and CRPF was on a combing operation in the area, when Naxals opened indiscriminate firing on them. When security forces opened retaliatory fire, Naxals fled into deep jungle."