Three jawans of the Chhattisgarh police were killed and four others injured on Friday in an ambush set up by Naxals in Bastar district, a senior police official said in Raipur.

Bastar Superintendent of Police Ratan Lal Dangi told PTI over the phone that the incident took place near Netanar village on Friday morning.

The police team, from Darbha station, was heading for the village after receiving a report that Naxals had vandalised a guest house of the forest department there on Thursday.

While the police team was on its way back, Naxals triggered a landmine explosion and opened fire, Dangi said. He added that additional forces had been dispatched to the spot.