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
Three to four naxals were said to have been injured in an encounter between the security forces and Maoists in Mandagiri forests of Dhamtari district in Chhattisgarh
The skirmish took place on Aamdai Ghati (valley) under Chhotedongar police station limits when a Road Opening Party (ROP) of the ITBP's 45th battalion was out on patrolling duty.
