Chhattisgarh: Naxalite killed in encounter with security personnel in Sukma district

Chhattisgarh: Naxalite killed in encounter with security personnel in Sukma district


Sukma (Chhattisgarh):

A Naxalite was killed in an encounter with security personnel in Chhattisgarh’s Sukma district on Friday (May 23). The gunfight broke out on Thursday evening in a forest under the jurisdiction of Kistaram police station area when a joint team of security personnel was out on an anti-Naxal operation.

Personnel belonging to the District Reserve Guard (DRG), Special Task Force and 210th battalion of CoBRA (Commando Battalion for Resolute Action), an elite unit of CRPF, were involved in the operation, he said.

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“One Naxalite has been killed in the gunfight, and an intermittent exchange of fire is still underway in the area,” the official said. Further details are awaited in this regard.

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On Thursday, a CoBRA commando of the CRPF (Central Reserve Police Force) and a Naxalite were killed during an encounter in the forests of Tumrel along the border of Sukma and Bijapur districts of the state.

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In a major success on Wednesday, 27 Naxalites, including their top commander Nambala Keshav Rao, alias Basavaraju, the general secretary of the outlawed CPI (Maoist), were killed in an encounter with the DRG of the state police in a dense forest along the Narayanpur-Bijapur border.

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