Raipur: Two Naxals were gunned down in an encounter with security forces in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district on Sunday, the police said.
The skirmish took place around 8 am at a forest in Pamed area when a joint team of the special anti-Naxal Greyhounds unit of Telangana and Chhattisgarh police was out on an operation along the interstate border, Deputy Inspector General Sundarraj P told PTI.
Chhattisgarh Police’s Special Task Force (STF) and the district force had launched the anti-Naxal operations along the inter-state border, located around 500 km from the state capital Raipur, he said.
When the security forces were cordoning off the forest area at Pamed, the gun-battle begun, he said.
The police recovered two bodies. (PTI)