22 Naxalites, cop killed in encounter in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur
In an enormous operation towards left-wing extremism, safety forces killed 22 Naxalites in an encounter in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district on Thursday, 20 March, an official mentioned. A police jawan was additionally killed within the encounter, he mentioned.
The gunfight broke out at round 7.00 am in a forest alongside the border of Bijapur and Dantewada districts when a joint group of safety personnel was out on an anti-Naxalite operation in Gangaloor police station space (in Bijapur), he mentioned.
Our bodies of twenty-two Naxalites together with firearms and explosives had been recovered from the spot, the senior police official mentioned.
A jawan of the state police’s District Reserve Guard (DRG) unit was additionally killed within the gunfight, he mentioned. The operation was nonetheless underway within the space, he added.
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