Two women Naxalites killed in encounter with cops in Chhattisgarh's Narayanpur
Naxalites
have been killed in an encounter with
security personnel
in
Chhattisgarh
's
Narayanpur
district, police said on Thursday.
The gunfight broke out late Wednesday evening at a forest under Kohkameta police station limits in
Abhujmaad area
when a joint team of the
District Reserve Guard
(DRG) and
Special Task Force
(STF) was out on an
anti-Naxal operation
, a police official said.
The DRG personnel, belonging to Narayanpur and
Kondagaon
districts, were involved in the operation launched based on inputs about the presence of senior cadres of Maad division of
Maoists
, he said.
"So far, bodies of two women Naxalites along with an Insas rifle and a .315 bore rifle have been recovered from the spot," the official said.
The operation was still underway, he added.
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