One more suspected Maoist was killed on Tuesday in an encounter with Kerala’s specialised Thunderbolt police in a forest area near Attapady here, taking the number of ultras who died in the combing operations in the last two days to four, police said.
The gunfight broke out on Tuesday morning while a team was conducting an inquest into the death of three Maoists, including a woman, killed in an encounter in the area on Monday, a senior police official told PTI.
“Four members of the insurgent group have been killed. The bodies of the four have been brought out from the deep forest and the post-mortem will be performed at the Thrissur Medical College Hospital,” the official said. None of the members of the Thunderbolt was injured in the present combing operations, taken up based on a tip-off about presence of Maoists in the area, the police official added. Thunderbolts is an elite commando force of the Kerala Police under the India Reserve Battalion. Meanwhile, a report quoting Bengaluru police, said two of the Maoists killed belonged to Chikkamagaluru district in Karnataka.
The brother of one of the ultras told reporters in Angadi in the district that he came to know about the death of his sibling in police action in Kerala.