Sharing details of the ongoing exchange of fire, a police officer informed that a joint security team from the District Reserve Guard (DRG) and the Special Task Force (STF) were involved in the operation.
After the Kanker encounter in Chhattisgarh, Arun Kumar Sarangi, DGP Odisha, has said that the bordering state of Chhattisgarh has been kept on high alert and the intelligence team is keeping an eye the Naxals movement in the area.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah came out in praise of the joint security forces a day after 29 Naxals were gunned down during an encounter with the Left-wing outlaws in Chhattisgarh's Kanker district, saying that Red Terror will soon be rooted out of the country under the leadership of Prim
Union Home Minister Amit Shah congratulated the security forces for the encounter operation in Chhattisgarh in which 29 Naxalites were killed and said that the government is determined to free the country of this menace.
Two security personnel sustained injuries after an encounter broke out between the police and Naxalites in the Kanker district of Chhattisgarh on Tuesday.
Three more bodies of Naxals were recovered in Chhattisgarh's Bijapur district on Wednesday morning, a day after an encounter with security forces there.
A Naxalite was killed and a weapon recovered from his possesion after an encounter broke out during the Leftwing outlaws and security forces in the Bijapur district on Tuesday.
The fierce exchange of gunfire occurred between the security forces and People's Liberation Guerrilla Army (PLGA)-- an armed wing of the Platoon No 10 of Naxals-- near Chipurbhatti jungle along Talperu River under Basaguda Police Station in Bijapur.
According to DSP Krishna Kumar Chandrakar, two Naxalites were killed in an encounter at Dantewada's Bijapur border area of Chhattisgarh today. During the search, the police seized two knuckle dusters, a large quantity of ammunitions.
The police forces are engaged in an exchange of fire with the Naxal insurgents in the jungles of Purangel, near the border of Dantewada and Bijapur in Chhattisgarh, sources said.
An exchange of fire took place between police and the Naxals in Chhattisgarh's Koyalibeda area on Thursday morning, Superintendent of Police (SP) of Kanker Kalyan Elesela said.