The gunfight began around 10 am in the Indravati National Park area during an anti-Naxal operation launched by a joint team of security personnel

RAIPUR: Six Maoists have been killed in a fierce gunfight with security personnel in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district on Tuesday, police said.

The gunfight began around 10 am in the Indravati National Park area during an anti-Naxal operation launched by a joint team of security personnel following intelligence inputs about the presence of senior Maoist cadres in the area.

Bijapur superintendent of police (SP) Jitendra Yadav said personnel from the District Reserve Guard (DRG) of Bijapur and Dantewada districts and the Special Task Force (STF) took part in the operation, he said. The exchange of fire continued intermittently for several hours.

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