CRPF personnel injured
A CRPF personnel, who sustained injury in the grenade explosion, getting treatment at KG Hospital in Coimbatore on Friday.As many as 10 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel were injured, two of them seriously, in a grenade explosion during a training session at the CRPF’s Central Training College 2 in Kurudampalayam, 20 km away from here, on Friday.According to the police, an in-service training for constables and head constables was underway at the college.As part of the final phase of the nine-week training, a firing practice was on. The trainees, in lying position, were firing selfloading rifles (SLRs) fitted with grenades.The grenade was expected to hit the target and explode within seven seconds, but due to what the police sources reasoned as a ‘manufacturing defect’, the grenade fired by a trainee attached to the 109 battalion from Assam, exploded well ahead of the target, injuring 10 personnel, including deputy commandant R Baruah and inspector R Rajesh Kumar.All the injured were taken to a private hospital in Coimbatore. According to George Francis, DIG of the training centre, there could be some technical reasons behind the mishap or a mistake while handling them.Dr G Bakthavatsalam, chairman of KG Hospital, where the injured CRPF personnel were admitted to, told TNIE that since the deputy commandant sustained injuries in his abdomen, he had to undergo a major surgery.He would remain in the intensive care unit for two days.
