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In a major crackdown, security forces have killed 450 Maoists in Chhattisgarh’s Bastar division over the past 20 months, Inspector General of Police Sundarraj P said. The latest encounter in Bijapur’s Indravati National Park claimed the lives of senior Maoist leaders, including Urmila and Buchanna.

With this incident, 81 naxalites have been gunned down by security forces in separate encounters in the State so far this year

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