Raipur: A police jawan was on Wednesday killed and another personnel critically injured in a landmine blast triggered by Naxals in Chhattisgarh's Kanker district, as the rebels struck on the first day of the Peoples' Liberation Guerrilla Army week observed by CPI (Maoist).

The explosion occurred on Wednesday morning when a joint team of Border Security Force (BSF) and district police was out on an operation under Koyalibeda police station limits, Kanker Superintendent of Police Jitendra Singh Meena told PTI.