At the very least seven Maoists have been killed in an encounter with safety forces on the inter-district border of Narayanpur and Bijapur districts in Chhattisgarh Thursday afternoon.
Thursday morning, safety forces obtained informatiom in regards to the presence of navy platoon quantity 16 and Indravati space committee members of Maoists on the inter-state border. A joint staff safety forces set out on an operation from totally different instructions.
A power of round a 1,000 personnel comprised of Bastar Fighters and District Reserve Guards (DRG) led by DSP Rahul Uikey and DSP Ashish Netam and Bastar together with groups of Particular Process Drive (STF).
The encounter passed off within the jurisdiction of Barsur police station in Dantewada simply 10 kilometers inside Abujhmad forest space. The operation started round 11 am when Maoists all of a sudden opened fired on the forces and the intermittent firing continued until night. Because the forces moved ahead they discovered our bodies of seven Maoists “wearing uniform of Folks’s Liberation Guerrilla Military (PLGA) and likewise their weapons”.
The encounter spot is 40 kilometers from Dantewada district headquarters.
The final operation passed off right here round 4 years in the past.
Safety forces who earlier entered Naxal heartland Abujhmad from Kanker and Narayanpur districts earlier this yr on Thursday entered the realm from Dantewada.
Abujhmad, which is unfold throughout Narayanpur, Bijapur and Dantewada, is round 4000 sq. kilometres huge, which makes it bigger than the state of Goa.
On April 16, forces entered Abujmad from Kanker and killed 29 Maoists after which on April 30 they entered the Maad space from Narayanpur and killed one other seven Maoists.
With this encounter, complete variety of Maoists killed to this point this yr has gone as much as 112.