A Naxalite was killed in an encounter w🐼ith security 🦋personnel in a forest along the Narayanpur-Bijapur inter-district border in Chhattisgarh on Friday, police said.
The gunfight too൩k place in the morning when a team of Special Task Force (STF) was returning after an anti-Naxal operation, a police official said.
A Naxalite was killed in an encounter w🐼ith security 🦋personnel in a forest along the Narayanpur-Bijapur inter-district border in Chhattisgarh on Friday, police said.
The gunfight༺ took place in the morningꦜ when a team of Special Task Force (STF) was returning after an anti-Naxal operation, a police official said.
The STF personnel were par𒉰t of a joint squad of security forces that had gunned down seven Naxalites in an encounter in the Pallewaya-Handawada area alo🐓ng the Bijapur-Narayanpur border on Thursday.
After Thursday's encounter, security personnel were returning to their base when Naxalites fired on a patrolling team of the STF leading to a gunbattle between the two 💮sides on Friday morning, he said.
After the firing stopped, the body of a Naxalite in ‘uniform’ was recovered from the spot, the official said, adding th🔥♔at further details are awaited.
Altogether, 8 Naxalites were killed in this operation which was laun💫ched on May 21, he added.
With the latest incident, 113 Naxalites have been killed so far this year in separate encount🌜ers with security forces in the state.