The our bodies of three extra Naxalites have been recovered on Saturday (October 5,2024) morning in Chhattisgarh’s Bastar area, the place a fierce encounter with safety personnel happened a day in the past, police mentioned.
With this, the variety of Naxalites killed within the gun battle with the safety personnel on Friday (October 4,2024) has risen to 31, they mentioned, including {that a} search operation continues to be underway within the space.
“Our bodies of three extra Naxalites have been recovered this morning from the dense forest the place the encounter happened on Friday,” Inspector Basic of Police P. Sundarraj advised PTI. “With this, the toll of Naxalites within the encounter rose to 31. The id of the Naxalites is but to be ascertained, however prima facie it seems that they belonged to PLGA firm No. 6, Platoon 16 of Maoists and east Bastar division of Maoists,” he mentioned.
On Friday (October 4, 2024) the gunfight broke out between safety forces and Naxalites round 1 a.m. in a forest between Nendur and Thulthuli villages on Dantewada and Narayanpur inter-district border, the place a joint group of District Reserve Guard and Particular Job Pressure was out on an anti-Naxal operation. The intermittent firing lasted for a very long time and the safety forces continued search operations within the space.
That is the best variety of fatalities suffered by Maoists in a single operation because the creation of the State 24 years in the past and the offensive comes greater than 5 months after 29 Naxalites, together with higher-ranking cadres, have been gunned down in an encounter with safety personnel in Kanker district. A jawan of the State police’s DRG sustained accidents in a blast in a shell of Beneath Barrel Grenade Launcher ired by Maoists in the course of the gunfight, the official mentioned.
Together with the our bodies, a cache of weapons, together with an AK-47 rifle, one SLR , one INSAS rifle, one LMG rifle and one .303 rifle have been additionally recovered from the encounter spot, the IGP mentioned.
Chief Minister Vishnu Deo Sai, who assumed workplace in December final 12 months, hailed the safety forces for finishing up a profitable operation, and mentioned the ‘double engine’ authorities is decided to eradicate the Naxal menace.
With this newest encounter, 188 Maoists have been gunned down by the safety forces in separate gun battles within the Bastar area comprising seven districts, together with Dantewada and Narayanpur, up to now this 12 months, police mentioned.
On April 16, as many as 29 Naxalites, together with some higher-ranking cadres, have been killed in an encounter with safety personnel in Kanker.
Printed – October 05, 2024 11:36 am IST