Security forces busted a Maoist camp following a gun fight with guerrillas in a forested patch of insurgency-hit Kanker district, police said here on Friday.
“BSF’s 175, 157, and 82nd battalions along with district police had launched a massive combing operation in four police station limits including- Badgaon, Durgkondal, Partappur and Siksod. On Thursday afternoon team of 175th battalion BSF had a face-off with Maoist team in the forest Markachua and Urpanjur which resulted in intense gun battle,” Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP) Kanker Kirtan Rathor informed.
Soon Maoist lost their ground and slipped into jungle, the ASP said while adding during the searching of area police found two cooker IEDs weighing 2 kg and 3 kg each, wire bundles, detonators, remote control, calculator, axe, knives, camera pen, radio, umbrella, backpacks, medicines and other items of daily use in huge quantity.