Six suspected Maoists were killed between Saturday and Sunday in a gunfight with security forces in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district, PTI quoted the police as saying.
While two of the suspected Maoists were killed on Sunday morning, four others were shot dead on Saturday in the forested hills of the district’s northwestern region, Bijapur Superintendent of Police Jitendra Yadav was quoted as saying.
Those who were killed on Sunday were active members of the National Park Area Committee of the Maoists, said Yadav.
They were identified as Dilip Vedja, a divisional committee member of the committee, and Madvi Kosa, Lakkhi Madkam and Radha Metta.
The identities of those killed on Sunday are yet to be established, the police said.
A joint of the Special Task Force, the District Reserve Guard, and the Central Reserve Police Force’s Commando Battalion for Resolute Action, or the CoBRA unit, has been carrying out a search operation in the district based on intelligence inputs about the presence of Vedja and other armed Maoists, PTI reported.
Security forces have recovered six weapons from the site of the gunfight, including an Avtomat Kalashnikova-47 rifle, an Indian Small Arms System rifle, a carbine and a .303 rifle.
Search operations continued in the region on Monday, with security officials searching for Papa Rao, a senior Maoist leader believed...
