Three Naxals killed in Chhattisgarh's Sukma district

Three Naxals have been encountered in a gun-battle around 6 pm in a forest in Sukma. On getting information that Naxals had dug up a road near Tadmetla, security forces had launched the operation in the area.

Raipur (Chhattisgarh): Three Naxals were gunned down in an encounter with security forces in Chhattisgarh's insurgency-hit Sukma district on Saturday evening.

The gun-battle took place around 6 pm in a forest near Tadmetla-Mukram nullah under Chintalnar police station area when a team of police's District Reserve Guard was out on patrol, Deputy Inspector General (Anti-Naxal operations) Sundarraj P said.

On getting information that naxals had dug up a road near Tadmetla, security forces had launched the operation in the area, he said.