At least seven Maoists, including a key leader of the outlawed group with a Rs 20 lakh bounty on his head, were killed in an encounter with anti-Naxal force Greyhounds and police of Mulugu district of Telangana Sunday morning, police said.
Among those killed was Kursam Mangu alias Bhadru, a Telangana state committee member and the Yellandu-Narsampet area committee secretary of the banned CPI (Maoist), along with a woman cadre, police said, adding that six of the seven slain Maoists were natives of Chhattisgarh.
The encounter began during a combing operation in the Chalpaka forest area of Eturnagaram mandal.
Superintendent of Police (SP) P Shabarish said that there was heavy exchange of fire during a combing operation in the Eturnagaram forest area.
The armed CPI(Maoist) cadres began firing indiscriminately at the police personnel despite being asked to surrender. The police also returned fire in self-defence, he said.
After the encounter, police found seven dead bodies while the remaining ultras got away.– With PTI inputs
Chhattisgarh man killed by Maoists
Raipur: A 25-year-old villager from Bhairamgarh, a stronghold of Naxals, in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district was murdered allegedly by Maoists on Saturday night, raising the annual civilian death toll to 63. Incidentally, this is the highest casualty suffered by villagers in the Left Wing Extremism (LWE) conflict since 2018.
During the previous BJP rule a total of 79 villagers were killed in the violence. As per preliminary information the incident took place somewhere around 9 pm when the victim Kumesh Kunjam was on his way home in Daler village, which falls under the jurisdiction of Bhairamgarh police station. —ENS
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