Vishakhapatnam (Andhra Pradesh): Three Naxals were gunned down by the police in an encounter in Visakhapatnam's Dorakonda area on Sunday.
According to police, a gun battle had ensued between them and the Naxals.
After the three Naxals, out of which two were women were shot down, the police recovered one boar-gun, one Self-Loading Rifle (SLR), two landmines and a kit bag from the spot.
Among the dead are Maoist Key leaders, Aruna and Galikonda area committee secretary Hari.
Police suspect that Maoist Party state committee leader Chalapathi-led Andhra-Odisha Border (AOB) special team escaped during the encounter.
Starting Saturday, the Maoists have been observing 15 years of CPI (Maoist) party formation. It was founded on September 21, 2004, following the merger of erstwhile CPI (Marxist-Leninist) People’s War, Maoist Communist Centre of India and CPI (ML) Naxalbari. They reportedly called for week-long “celebrations” of the Maoist party formation and also taking up programmes for 50 days, to mark the 50-years of Naxalbari movement.
The security forces received intelligence input that Maoists had held a rally in the Andhra-Odisha border on September 17.
Acting on a tip-off about the movement of Maoists in Gummarevula areas, the police swooped on the village.
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