Police Allege 2 Naxalites Killed In Encounter With Security Personnel In Bijapur District

Bijapur District, November 8, 2024: The State police claim that two Naxalites were killed in an exchange of fire with security personnel in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district today.

The firefight broke out around 11 a.m. in a forest on the tri-junction of Usoor-Basaguda-Pamed villages, where a joint team of security personnel was out on an anti-Naxalite operation, Inspector General of Police, Bastar Range, Sundarraj P, announced to the press today.

Personnel from the State police’s District Reserve Guard (DRG) and CoBRA (Commando Battalion for Resolute Action — an elite unit of the CRPF) were involved in the operation, the police official stated.

The police official declared that after the exchange of fire stopped, the bodies of two Naxalites were recovered from the spot along with a self-loading rifle (SLR), barrel grenade launcher shells and locally made weapons, adding that a search operation was underway in the area.

Source : https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/chhattisgarh/naxalites-killed-in-encounter-with-security-forces-in-bijapur/article68845186.ece