Over eight Naxalites were killed in an encounter which started on Thursday between the Naxals and the security personnel in a forest along the Narayanpur-Bijapur inter-district border in Chhattisgarh, according to the media reports.
Around eight weapons, including arms and ammunition, were recovered from them. The gunfight that started on Tuesday took place in the morning when a team of Special Task Force (STF) was returning after an anti-Naxal operation.
After the encounter which took place on Thursday, security personnel were returning to their base when Naxalites fired on a patrolling team of the STF which lead to a gunbattle between the two sides on Friday morning, said the police officials.
As the firing stopped, the body of a Naxalite in uniform was recovered from the spot, said the official. Following the encounter, Chief Minister Vishnu Deo Sai had earlier praised security forces and asserted that his government had been strongly fighting against Naxalism.
‘7 Naxalites were killed in an encounter with security forces in the border area of Narayanpur-Bijapur district. Certainly security forces have achieved great success. I salute their courage. Our government has been fighting strongly against Naxalism. Our aim is to eliminate Naxalism from the state,’ Sai had written on his ‘X’ handle.
Over 113 Naxalites have been killed so far this year in separate encounters with security forces in the state.
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