Three Maoists killed in Chhattisgarh
01 February, 2007
Three Maoist guerrillas were killed in two separate gun battles in Chhattisgarh Wednesday, police said.
'Two senior cadres of the (outlawed) Communist Party of India-Maoist were shot dead in a forested stretch of Bijapur (in Bastar), near the Andhra Pradesh border, in an hour-long encounter (gun battle) Wednesday afternoon,' Girdhari Nayak, Inspector General (Maoist operations), told IANS on the telephone.
Police recovered some self-loading rifles and other weapons from the site, located nearly 520 km south of here, he added.
Police gunned down a Maoist rebel in another shootout in Dantewada district of Bastar region late Wednesday afternoon.
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posted by Bimal 1.2.07,
