The District Force (DF) personnel gunned down two Maoists following an encounter in a forested patch of insurgency-hit Bijapur district of Bastar, a senior police officer informed here on Wednesday.
“The incident occurred in the afternoon hours near Telmendri village coming under Farsegarh police station limits between a team of DF personnel and ultras,” Superintendent of Police (SP), Bijapur Kl Dhruv said.
Two different teams had launched anti-Naxal operations from Kutru and Farsegarh police stations. While one of the team that was conducting operation near Telmendri village under Farsegadh police station they came in contact with armed Maoists, the SP added.
In the ensuing gun battle that followed between Maoists and police personnel, two insurgents were killed, the SP said.
While searching the spot, bodies of the killed Maoists clad in ‘uniform’ along with three muzzle loading guns, one 315 bore country-made revolver and a dump of Naxal bags and items of daily use including some mobile phones were recovered from the spot, he said.
According to him, the identity of the killed Maoists was yet to be ascertained as the forces were still in the jungle when the reports last came in.