Kanker: Three Maoists, including area committee members, were killed in an encounter with security forces in Chhattisgarh’s Kanker district on Sunday. With these deaths, the number of Naxalites killed in the state this year has gone up to 252.

According to the police, a 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. ADVERTISEMENT

Personnel of the District Reserve Guard (DRG), a unit of the state police, from Kanker and Gariaband, were involved in the operation, an official said. He said that an intermittent exchange of fire was underway till the afternoon.

The bodies of the three Maoists, along with three weapons, have been reco

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