India, April 3 -- Three more bodies of Maoists were found on Wednesday morning in Chhattisgarh's Bijapur district, where a gunfight had taken place between security forces and the ultras a day ago, police said. With this, the number of Maoists killed in the gunfight on Tuesday has risen to 13, said police.

The Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and the Chhattisgarh Police on Tuesday gunned down 10 Maoists in the Bijapur district, taking the number of insurgents killed thus far this year to 47, up from 22 in all of 2023.

The fierce gunfight started near the Kendra-Korcholi jungles under the Gangaloor police station - a Communist Party of India (Maoist) controlled area - around 6am when a joint team of security personnel was out on an an...