More than 12 Naxalites were killed in separate encounters with security forces in Chhattisgarh’s Bastar region on Saturday, police said, as reported by PTI.
“More than 10 ultras were gunned down in Sukma while two were killed in the adjoining Bijapur district in the early hours of the day,” they said.
The gunfight broke out in a forest in the southern area of Sukma district where a team of security personnel was on an anti-naxalite operation, a senior police official said, according to PTI.
“More than 10 cadres have been neutralized so far. The operation is still ongoing and more details will be shared later,” he said.
In Bijapur, a gunfight took place in a forest in the southern region of the district when a team of the District Reserve Guard, a unit of the state police, went out for a similar operation at around 5 am, another official said.
The bodies of two Naxalites were recovered from the spot, he said.
The intermittent firefight was still ongoing and further details were awaited, the official said.
Last year, as many as 285 Naxalites were shot dead in separate encounters with security forces in Chhattisgarh.
