Two Maoists killed in Chhattisgarh gun battle
January 5th, 2011 - 12:12 am ICT by IANSRaipur, Jan 4 (IANS) Two Maoist guerrillas were killed late Tuesday in a gunfight with police in a forested stretch in Chhattisgarh’s insurgency-riddled Bastar region, a senior official said.The gunfight took place in Erka forested area in Narayanpur district, some 300 km south of capital Raipur.
“The gunfight began when a police contingent surrounded a forested hideout of Maoists. The rebels fired several rounds at the police team and the jawans retaliated strongly in which two Maoists were killed. Their bodies have been recovered,” an official at the police headquarters here told IANS.
The official added that police recovered a few weapons and explosives of Maoists at the battle site.
The sprawling 40,000 sq km Bastar region is considered the nerve centre of Maoist militants in India since late 1980s where over a thousand people have been killed in Leftist violence in the past one decade.
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