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8 Maoists Killed in Chhattisgarh

8 Maoists Killed in Chhattisgarh

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NEW DELHI, Feb 1: Eight Maoists were killed in an encounter with security forces in Bijapur district in Chhattisgarh on Saturday.

The police said the gunfight broke out around 8.30 am in the forest in Gangaloor police station area when a joint team of security personnel was out on an anti-Maoist operation.

Personnel of the District Reserve Guard (DRG) and Special Task Force of the state police along with the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and its elite unit CoBRA (Commando Battalion for Resolute Action) were involved in the operation which was launched on Friday after receiving information about the presence of cadres of the `West Bastar division’ of the Maoists in the area, he said.

The development comes in line with central government’s vow to “end Naxalism” by 2026, which Home Minister Amit Shah had reiterated on January 6 after eight DRG jawans and one driver lost their lives when their vehicle was blown up by Maoists using an IED on the Bedre-Kutru Road in Bijapur district.

The blast reportedly took place when the jawans of DRG Dantewada, were returning in a Scorpio after a joint operation, the IG said. The joint operation was of Dantewada, Narayanpur and Bijapur.

It was the biggest strike on security personnel by Maoists in the last two years. On April 26, 2023, ten police personnel and a civilian driver were killed after Maoists blew up their vehicle, which was part of a convoy carrying security personnel in neighbouring Dantewada district.

Home Minister Amit Shah took to microblogging platform X and said he was deeply saddened by the news of the loss of DRG soldiers in the IED blast in Bijapur. “It is impossible to express this grief in words, but I assure you that the sacrifice of our soldiers will not go in vain.

(Manas Dasgupta)

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