Jammu Tawi, Feb. 10 -- At least 31 Maoists were killed and two others injured in an encounter with security forces in Chhattisgarh's Bijapur district here on Sunday morning, police said.

Bastar Inspector General of Police (IG) P Sundar Raj also confirmed the death of 31 Maoists in the encounter.

The encounter broke out in the forest area of Indravati National Park on the border of Maharashtra with Bijapur and Narayanpur on Sunday morning when a team of security personnel was on an anti-Naxal operation, they said.

Giving details of the whole case and the encounter, . Sundarraj said that on the information of the presence of Maoists in the National Park area of district Bijapur, Bijapur DRG, STF and joint force were dispatched. During t...