Bleeding profusely CRPF commando played dead and lived

March 13, 2014 11:47

Bleeding profusely from bullet wounds as his colleagues lay dead or badly injured, Manilal Thakur did what he thought was best.

"I stayed calm and pretended to be dead,' Thakur, one of the two survivors of the Maoist ambush in the Jeeram valley area of Sukma district in the Bastar region, told The Telegraph today.

"I survived.' It was not short of a miracle that this district police constable and another CRPF commando, Manoj Tomar, survived the ambush that killed 15 security personnel and a civilian in the same area that a Congress convoy was wiped out last year. Read more

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