Ten Maoists, including a top leader Hari Bhushan, were gunned down in an encounter near Telangana-Chhattisgarh border, early this morning. A security personnel was also killed in the gunfight, police said.
The encounter broke out when a joint team of anti-Maoist Greyhounds from Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, and special police personnel from Odisha, Chattisgarh and Maharashtra were conducting combing operations in the border areas near Pujari Kankar, around 500 km from Raipur, the capital of Chhattisgarh.
“The encounter started early morning in the Pujari Kanker forests where forces gunned down 10 Maoists,” the Special Director General, Anti-Naxal Operations, DM Awasthi, told.
Three other security personnel were also injured in the encounter, he said, adding that “The injured have been shifted to a hospital in Bhadrachalam and if required they will be shifted to a bigger hospital in Raipur.”
