Three Naxalites, including area committee members, were killed in an encounter with security forces in Chhattisgarh’s Kanker district on Sunday. With this, 252 Maoists have been eliminated across the state this year, police said.

Kanker: Three Naxalites were killed in an encounter with security personnel in Chhattisgarh’s Kanker district on Sunday, a senior police official said.

The gun battle broke out in the forest of Ravas along the border of Kanker and Gariaband districts, where a joint team of security personnel was out on an anti-Naxal operation in the morning, the official said.

Personnel belonging to the District Reserve Guard (DRG), a unit of state police, from Kanker and Gariaband were involved in the operation, he said. The official said that an intermittent exchange of fire

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