Five Naxalites, including four involved in two attacks on security personnel in 2019, have been arrested from two places in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district, police said on Tuesday. Four Naxalites were apprehended from the Udatamalla forest while the fifth was nabbed near Berudi river in Naimed, Bijapur Superintendent of Police Kamlochan Kashyap said. The arrests were made on June 13 by the CRPF, CoBRA and district police personnel during an anti-Naxalite operation, he said. Those arrested from Pamed have been identified as Samaiyya Savlam (20), Baman Kovasi (26), Podiam Kistaiyya (27) and Madvi Rama (22). They were involved in triggering IED blasts and opening fire twice to target security forces in 2019, he added. Firecrackers and 10 iron spikes were seized from them. Aaytu Lekam, head of the Maoists’ rural party committee (RPC), was involved in torching four machines and a vehicle engaged in construction work in Naimed in April, the officer said.