Narayanpur, May 22 -- Chhattisgarh DGP Arun Dev Gautam on Thursday said that all the 27 Maoists killed in the encounter in the Narayanpur district of the State on Wednesday have been identified. The CPI (Maoist) general secretary was among the killed.

"All of them (neutralised Naxals) have been identified. There will be a press briefing in Raipur. You know very well who Basava Raju (Naxal leader) was. He was the topmost leader of Naxalism," Gautam told reporters.

Gautam, along with IG Bastar P Sundarraj and other officials, inspected the bodies of the Naxals and the weapons recovered from them. The recovered arms and ammunition include BGLs, carbines, INSAS, AK 47, SLRs, .303 rifles and other firearms.

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