Malkangiri: Security personnel recovered the bodies of seven Maoists who were killed in an encounter in a forest along the Narayanpur-Bijapur inter-district border in Chhattisgarh on Thursday, police said.
Dantewada, Narayanpur, Bastar Police jointly got major success in the operation. Bodies of seven Maoists recovered so far from the incident site. Many automatic weapons were also recovered from the spot, an official statement said.
Narayanpur SP Prabhat Kumar, Dantewada SP Gaurav Roy and Bastar SP Shalabh Kumar Sinha are in touch with the soldiers.
The operation is continuing and the number may increase further.
The gunfight broke out around 11 am when a joint team of security personnel was out on an anti-Maoist operation and the intermittent firing was still underway, Narayanpur Superintendent of Police (SP) Prabhat Kumar said.
The operation carried out by the District Reserve Guard from Dantewada, Narayanpur and Bastar districts, Bastar Fighters and Special Task Force based on inputs about the presence of cadres from Maoists’ Indravati Area Committee and Platoon No. 16, he said.
