Five Naxalites gunned down in encounters in Chhattisgarh's Bijapur district
Five
Naxalites
were killed in two encounters with
security forces
in an ongoing operation in the
Indravati National Park
area of
Chhattisgarh
's
Bijapur district
, police said on Saturday.
With the latest casualties, seven Naxalites, including top leaders
Sudhakar
and Bhaskar, were neutralised in the operation in the last three days, they said.
"Security forces have recovered the bodies of seven Maoists during the ongoing anti-Naxal operations in the Indravati National Park area of the district," a senior police official said.
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On Saturday, two bodies were recovered following a gunfight, while three were found after the exchange of fire on the intervening night of Friday and Saturday, he said.
The official said the operation involving personnel from the state police's Special Task Force (STF) and District Reserve Guard (DRG) as well as the CRPF's specialised unit CoBRA, was launched on June 4 based on input about the presence of Maoist leader Sudhakar,
Telangana State Committee
member Bandi Prakash, Dandakaranya Special Zonal Committee (DKSZC) member Pappa Rao, and a few other
armed cadres
.
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On Friday, security forces neutralised Bhaskar alias Mailarapu Adellu, a special zonal committee (SZC) member of the Telangana State Committee (TSC) of Maoists who carried a reward of Rs 45 lakh in Chhattisgarh and Telangana, and Maoists' central committee member Narasimha Chalam alias Sudhakar, who had a bounty of Rs 40 lakh in Chhattisgarh, was killed on Thursday, he said.
The official said the identity of five more killed Naxalites, two of them women, is yet to be ascertained.
A huge cache of arms and ammunition, including two AK-47 rifles, has been seized in the operation, he said, adding that search and area domination operations were underway in the surrounding forested terrain to track remaining Maoist cadres and ensure complete sanitisation of the region.
A few security personnel have suffered injuries due to snakebite, honeybee sting, dehydration and other operational injuries during the operation and were provided medication, the official said.
The outlawed CPI (Maoist) general secretary Nambala Keshav Rao alias Basavaraju (70) was neutralised in the Bastar region on May 21.
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