Bijapur (Chhatisgarh): Twelve Naxalites were killed in an encounter with security personnel in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district on Sunday, police said.
The gunfight broke out at a forest in the Indravati National Park area in the morning when a team of security personnel was out an anti-Naxalite operation, a senior police official said.
“As per preliminary information, 12 Naxalites were killed in the gunfight,” the official said.
Two security personnel, one belonging to the state police’s District Reserve Guard and the other from the Special Task Force, were also killed in the gunfight and two others suffered injuries, the official added.
Efforts are on to retrieve the bodies of the deceased security personnel and evacuate the injured jawans, he said.
