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Chhattisgarh: Security forces in Chhattisgarh on Thursday claimed to have recovered 30 bodies of Naxalities killed in separate encounters in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur and Kanker districts and recovered a huge cache of arms and ammunition, officials said.
Bastar Inspector General of Police P Sundarraj while speaking with the media said that after two separate encounters with Naxalites in the two districts, IG Sundarraj said, “Operations were conducted today in various areas of the Bastar district. In the Bijapur-Dantewada border region, we have recovered the bodies of 26 Naxalites.”
“A large number of AK-47 rifles, as well as automatic and semi-automatic weapons, have also been seized. One personnel of the Bijapur District Reserve Guard (DRG) lost his life during the encounter,” he said.
Speaking about the encounter near the Kanker-Narayanpur border, the IG said that four Naxalites were killed in the gunfight, and their bodies were recovered during a search operation. “The search operation is still underway in the area,” he added.
Earlier in the day, Chhattisgarh Deputy Chief Minister Vijay Sharma condoled the death of the District Reserve Guard and said that at least 18 bodies out of the total 22 Naxalites killed in an encounter were recovered.
“Search operations have been ongoing in the Gangaloor area between Bijapur and Dantewada. One of our DRG jawans, Raju Oyyami, was killed in action during the operation. The entire government stands with his family. May God give them strength,” the Deputy CM said.
