Raipur/Hyderabad, April 25 -- Three Maoists were killed on Thursday morning as security personnel from three states launched an operation along the inter-state border in Bijapur district of Chhattisgarh following information that top Maoist commanders, Mandvi Hidma, Deva and Damodar, were present in the area, officials said.
Over 10,000 personnel from Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra and Telangana, and paramilitary forces entered the forest on Tuesday evening. The encounter was going on till the time of going to print. While bodies of three extremists were recovered from the site, several other rebels were also suspected to have been killed. P11
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