The Bijapur encounter death toll rose to 18 after forces recovered six more Maoist bodies on Thursday. Three DRG personnel were killed and two injured. A major cache of weapons was seized, and top Maoist commander Modiyam Vella was among the dead.
An encounter erupted between security forces and Naxalites in Bijapur, Chhattisgarh. District Reserve Guard, Special Task Force, and CRPF’s CoBRA units engaged in an ongoing anti-Maoist operation in west Bastar forests
Three Naxalites, including area committee members, were killed in an encounter with security forces in Chhattisgarh’s Kanker district on Sunday. With this, 252 Maoists have been eliminated across the state this year, police said.
The gunfight broke out at around 8 am in the forest under the Kerlapal police station area, where a joint team of security personnel was out on an anti-Naxalite operation
Secretary Potu Ranga Rao said that Centre has declared war on Bastar people and Maoist movement like a war against foreign enemies by means of ‘Operation Kagar’
The gunfight broke out at a forest in Indravati National Park area in the morning when a team of security personnel was out an anti-naxalite operation, a senior police official said