Bijapur: At least 12 Naxalites were killed in an encounter with security forces in Bijapur of Chhattisgarh on Thursday, a senior police official said. The gunfight broke out at around 9 am in a forest of south Bijapur when a joint team of security personnel was out on an anti-Naxalite operation. The intermittent exchange of fire lasted till late in the evening, police said.
Personnel belonging to the District Reserve Guard (DRG) from three districts, five battalions of CRPF’s elite jungle warfare unit CoBRA (Commando Battalion for Resolute Action) and the 229th battalion of CRPF (Central Reserve Police Force) were involved in the operation, a senior police official said.
"As per preliminary information, 12 Naxalites were killed in the incident. Further details were awaited as a search operation was still underway in the area," the official added.
On January 12, five Naxalites, including two women, were killed in an encounter with security personnel in the Madded police station area of Bijapur. With this, 26 Naxalites have been gunned down in separate encounters in the state so far this month. Last year, 219 Naxalites were neutralised by security forces in separate encounters in the state.
In their biggest strike on security forces in Chhattisgarh in two years, Naxals blew up a vehicle using an improvised explosive device weighing 60 to 70 kg, killing eight security personnel and their civilian driver in Bijapur district earlier this month, the police had said. (With PTI Inputs)
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