Twelve Naxalites were killed in an
encounter with security forces in Chhattisgarh's Bijapur district on Sunday,
police said.Two
security personnel were also killed and as many others injured in the face-off,
they said.
The
gunfight took place at a forest in Indravati National Park area in the morning
when a joint team of personnel from different security forces was out on an
anti-Naxalite operation, a senior police official said.
"As per preliminary information,
12 Naxalites were killed in the gunfight. Bodies of all of them have been
recovered," he said.
Two
security personnel, one belonging to the state police's District Reserve Guard
and the other from the Special Task Force, were also killed in the gunfight and
two others suffered injuries, the official said.
Efforts are on to retrieve bodies of the deceased
security personnel and evacuate the injured jawans, he said.