Four Maoists including a lOS Commander on Sunday was gunned down in an encounter with District Reserve Guards in Chhattisgarh's insurgency-hit Narayanpur district.
Narayanpur Superintendent of Police Jitendra Shukla informed The Pioneer that the gun battle took place in the jungles of insurgency hit Amujhmad area under Maad police station limits when a team of District Reserve Guard (DRG) was out on an anti-Naxal operation.
"When the patrolling team of 15-20 Jawans was cordoning off Maad jungles, it came under heavy fire by a group of ultras following which gun-battle broke out between the two sides," he said.
"During search of the spot, four bodies of Maoists were recovered out of which two were identified. The deceased Maoists were identified as Ratti, a Jhara lOS (local Organization Squad) Commander and Somalu, an Area Committee In charge of Nelnar”, official said. A body of one woman Maoist was also among them, he added.
The DRG also succeeded in recovering four weapons from there which include one INSAS, one 303 and two 12-bore guns, official said.