The encounter started at around 7:30 am in a woods when joint teams of the army were engaged in an anti-Maoist operation...
Digital Desk: In a morning raid today, security forces killed four Naxals in Chhattisgarh's Bijapur. According to Bastar's Inspector General of Police, P Sundarraj, over 50 Naxals had assembled to organise an attack on development activities in the area when the forces struck them.
Sundarraj stated that teams from the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), Special Task Force, and District Reserve Guards conducted an operation after receiving information of a meeting of Naxals in the region.
Sundarraj said the clash began around 7.30 a.m. in a forest near Pomra village, within the Mirtur police station borders, when joint troops were out on an anti-Maoist operation.
Two of the four people slain were women. The bodies of all four people, as well as a substantial cache of weapons, have been retrieved, according to the IG.
He went on to say that the identification of the Naxals was unspecified.
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