Two security personnel were killed and five others injured, three of them critically, in two separate encounters with Naxalites in Chhattisgarh's insurgency-hit Sukma district, police said
A jawan is being taken to a hospital after the gunbattle with Maoist rebels in Sukma district of Chhattisgarh, on Saturday. Pic/PTI
Two security personnel were killed and five others injured, three of them critically, in two separate encounters with Naxalites in Chhattisgarh's insurgency-hit Sukma district, police said.
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One naxal was also gunned down during the operation. "While two district reserve guard jawans were killed, five special task force personnel were injured in two gunbattles between a joint team of security forces and ultras under Chintagufa police station limits in the district," Special DGP (anti-Maoist operations) DM Awasthi said.
The SDGPâu00c2u0080u00c2u0088added, "Over a dozen Maoists were killed during the operation."
On April 24, 25 CRPF personnel were killed in a Naxal ambush near Chintagufa police station in Sukma.
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