Communist party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres detonated Improvised Explosive Devices (IED) and opened fire on a joint team of District Police, District Reserve Guard (DRG), Chhattisgarh Armed Force (CAF) and Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) when they were conducting search operation based on intelligence input in Narayanpur District of Chhattisgarh on August 12, reports ANI. No Security Force (SF) personnel were injured in the incident, Police said. Narayanpur, Superintendent of Police (SP), Mohit Garg said, "Today morning around 11 am, joint teams of district police, DRG, CAF and ITBP were out for Area Search and Domination exercise based on the inputs of suspected movement of a small team of Naxalites [Left Wing Extremists, LWEs] near Jhori village and their plan to carry out a big attack before Independence Day," Garg said, adding, "When the parties cordoned the area they found that Maoists had blocked the road with fallen trees and posted banner on them. The Maoist small action team had laid an ambush with multiple command IEDs for the SFs and civilians who would cross the road. But the SFs followed tactical movements and cordoned the area seeing which Naxalites blasted the IEDs and started firing on the forces. After a brief firing for 10 minutes they ran into jungles and hillocks," he said. However, there was no reports of casualties among the SFs.