raipur four days after the tekulguda ambush at least eight audio clips went viral on tuesday where a purported cobra commando recounts the valiant firefight and how the trapped troops kept waiting for help to arrivenone of the senior police officers would comment on the authenticity of the audios or the sequence of events they describe the operation is being analyzed and such audios and videos often do the rounds after a major naxal attack said an officerthe speaker recounts how he used a captured maoist as a human shield to protect his section and handed him over to police after they returned to base police havent confirmed or denied this claimwe were trapped and kept asking for chopper over satellite phone since morning 11 to 1pm the headquarters kept assuring that the chopper has just taken off but then they asked us to walk 3km more we went ahead somehow but were told that approval was being taken for chopper and discussions were going on goes one of the audio clipson inquiring about reinforcements we found that 168 troops were waiting on a hillock for what i dont know we pressed ahead and the naxals followed us for 8km we communicated again and immediately came under attack from naxalites on the ground it was then that crpf reinforcements sitting on top retaliated with ubgls and the maoists retreated into the forest he saysan rpg round fired by crpf was so accurate that it broke the encounter he addsour senior 2ic secondincommand sandeep dwivedi was shot in the hand but kept fighting until he was shot again from the back another deputy commander munish was hit from behind a rifle grenade splinter pierced his head another inspector was shot in the chest soon after and was martyred we decided to take the fight to the maoists with fire and advance move he saysone of the clips talks about how the toll would have been much higher but for the valiant fightbackwe were trapped in an ambush again all of us from cobra stf and drg gave a tough fight to the naxals the encounter went on for six hours information was being passed via satellite maoists used advanced weapons and the casualties could have been much higher even more than the 76 in the tadmetla attack he saysvalour carried the day he says they say 22 is heavy casualty i say hadnt we broken the ambush they would have butchered us cobra commandos tried to carry as many of the dead and their weapons goes another audio clipi wonder where they maoists got so much ammunition and shells from i grabbed a naxal and used him as a human shield against the firing from their side saving myself and my section of commandos they didnt fire at us on realizing that we had one of their men i brought him back to base and he was found to be an ied expert he showed us a house