Two suspected Maoists were gunned down and two female Naxal cadres were held after an encounter between left wing extremists (lWE) and police force in a forested patch of Abujhmad in Narayanpur district, police said on Saturday.
“The encounter happened in forested terrain of Bedma Meta about 40 km from Narayanpur headquarters on Friday evening,” Superintendent of Police (SP) Narayanpur Abhishek Meena said. He credited the joint team of District Reserve Group (DRG) and Special Task Force (STF) for the same. The DRG team which was carrying out searching operation, based on intelligence inputs, confronted armed Naxals group which opened fire on police party, Meena stated.