A Naxalite was killed in a gun battle with security forces in Chhattisgarh’s Narayanpur district on Monday, a police official said.
The fighting took place at around 1.30 am near a bridge in a forest patch, located around six km from the Bharanda police station.
“The gunfight took place when a team of the District Reserve Guard (DRG) was on a search operation,” Narayanpur Superintendent of Police Girija Shankar Jaiswal said.
“After the exchange of fire stopped, the body of a Naxalite and a muzzle loading gun were recovered from the spot,” the official said.
A huge cache of Maoist related items was also found at the site. Jaiswal said the dead rebel was yet to be identified.
With this action, six Naxalites have been killed in four encounters between the Maoists and security forces in Bastar region in the last one week.