Eight Naxalites and one security personnel were killed in an encounter in Chhattisgarh’s Narayanpur district on Saturday, according to a police official.
The gunfight broke out this morning in the forest of Abhujmad when a joint team of the security personnel from four districts – Narayanpur, Kanker, Dantewada and Kondagaon – was out on an anti-Naxal operation, an official said.
The operation involving the personnel of District Reserve Guard (DRG) from four districts, Special Task Force (STF) and the 53rd battalion of the Indo Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) was launched on June 12, he said.
