As many as 12 Maoists were killed in a fierce encounter with security forces in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district on Thursday, a senior police official said.<\/p>\n
The gunfight broke out at around 9 am in a forest of south Bijapur when a joint team of security personnel was out on an anti-maoist operation and the intermittent exchange of fire lasted till late in the evening, he said.<\/p>\n
Personnel belonging to the state police’s District Reserve Guard (DRG) from three districts, five battalions of CoBRA (Commando Battalion for Resolute Action – an elite jungle warfare unit of the CRPF) and the 229th battalion of CRPF were involved in the operation, he said.<\/p>\n
“As per preliminary information, 12 Naxalites were killed in the gunfight. Further details were awaited as a search operation was still underway in the area,” the official informed.<\/p>\n
No harm was reported to security forces, he said.<\/p>\n
With this, 26 Maoists have been gunned down in separate encounters in the state so far this month.<\/p>\n
On January 12, five Maoists, including two women, were killed in an encounter with security personnel in the Madded police station area of Bijapur district.<\/p>\n
Last year, 219 Maoists were neutralised by security forces in separate encounters in the state.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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