12 Maoists, 3 DRG personnel killed in Bijapur encounter
Raipur, Dec. 4 -- Twelve Maoists and three personnel of the District Reserve Guard (DRG) were killed in a fierce encounter in Bijapur district on Wednesday, while two more DRG jawans sustained injuries, officials said.
The anti-Maoist operation is still underway.
The gun battle erupted early in the morning in a forest stretch along the Bijapur-Dantewada border when a joint team of DRG Dantewada-Bijapur, the Special Task Force (STF), CRPF and CoBRA commandos launched a coordinated search operation. Inspector General of Police (Bastar Range) Sundarraj Pattilingam said intermittent firing between the Maoists and security forces continued for several hours. P5...
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