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RAIPUR: A minimum of 5 safety personnel together with a CRPF jawan and two Maoists had been killed in a fierce gunbattle on the Silger forested terrain in south Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur on Saturday. Round a dozen jawans had been additionally injured within the encounter.
The incident occurred when safety forces had been despatched on the intelligence-based anti-Maoist operations from three completely different instructions alongside the Bijapur-Sukma border space on Friday night time.
A staff of troopers reportedly acquired trapped in an ambush close to Tarrem on Saturday midday adopted by an encounter that continued for practically three hours, in line with the data reaching the state capital.
The Chhattisgarh DGP DM Awasthi confirmed that 5 jawans had been killed within the gunfight.
The Maoists carried out the assault when the forces had been returning after the operation. Two choppers and 9 ambulances have been rushed to Bijapur.
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The reinforcement was rushed to the spot and the forces are but to return from the operation, the DGP added.
Two our bodies of rebels had been additionally recovered from the encounter website.
That is the second main Maoist assault inflicting casualties on the forces over the past 10 days within the battle zone of Bastar.
On March 23, 5 personnel of District Reserve Guards (DRG) had been killed and over a dozen injured in a collection of highly effective IED blasts focusing on a bus carrying jawans within the Narayanpur district.
In the meantime, an emergency assembly of high state and police officers together with the director of the intelligence bureau was convened in Raipur. Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel condemned the incident by calling it a ‘dastardly act’ of Maoists.
