Security forces on Tuesday shot dead two women Naxalites in Dantewada district in Chhattisgarh, police said.
The fighting took place in a forest near Gorli-Mutheli villages when security forces were out on a search operation, Dantewada Superintendent of Police Siddharth Tiwari said.
There were specific inputs about the presence of cadres of the Pedaras Local Organisation Squad and Katekalyan Area Committee formations of the Maoists in the forests of Jiyakortha, Gorli, Mutheli and Danikortha villages along the border of Dantewada and Sukma districts, he said.
Hence, personnel from the District Reserve Guard (DRG) from Sukma and Dantewada, the CRPF’s 230th Battalion and the Chhattisgarh Armed Force (CAF) were sent to the area, the officer said.
At around 11.30 am, the gunfight broke out between Gorli and Mutheli, Tiwari said.
After the exchange of fire stopped, the bodies of two women Maoists along with two 12 bore rifles and a country-made weapon were recovered from the spot, he said.
The official said that one of the deceased was identified as Pedaras LOS Commander Manjula and the other one as Gangi Punem, a protection team member.
No harm was reported to security personnel in the operation.