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RAIPUR: A daylong gunfight connected the Dantewada-Bijapur borderline successful Chhattisgarh’s Bastar portion near astatine slightest 12 Maoists and 3 District Reserve Guard (DRG) unit dormant Wednesday, marking 1 of the year’s heaviest losses for the outlawed radical arsenic information forces pressed deeper into the insurgency’s crumbling stronghold,Another DRG constable was wounded but was said to beryllium retired of danger.
The clash erupted astir 9am successful the forests of Gangaloor adjacent Dantewada and intermittent firing continued done the time crossed West Bastar part during a associated cognition involving DRG teams from Dantewada and Bijapur, STF, and CoBRA units of CRPF.268 Maoists died successful information actions crossed Chhattisgarh With Wednesday’s killings, the fig of Maoists changeable dormant successful information actions crossed Chhattisgarh this twelvemonth roseate to 268 — 239 successful Bastar alone, 27 successful Gariyaband nether Raipur division, and 2 successful Mohla-Manpur-Ambagarh Chowki successful Du-rg.
Union location curate Amit Shah has acceptable a March 2026 de-adline for eliminating the M-aoist insurgency nationwide.Bastar scope IG P Sundarraj said 12 bodies were retrieved from the site. “Weapons similar SLR rifles, .303 rifles and different arms and ammunition person been found,” helium said.DRG mislaid caput constable Monu Vadadi and constables Dukaru Gonde and Ramesh Sori, portion their wounded workfellow Somdev Yadav has been admitted to hospital.
Security forces continued combing the dense jungles on the Dantewada-Bijapur axis, wherever Maoist formations person agelong attempted to regroup. “Since the cognition is inactive successful progress, elaborate accusation cannot beryllium shared. Further details, including the individuality and fertile of the slain Maoists, volition beryllium confirmed aft hunt and clearance,” Sundarraj said.Bijapur SP Jitendra Yadav described the cognition arsenic a “decisive and assertive action” and said the country had been afloat cordoned off.Reinforcements were deployed to expanse for much Maoist insurgents. The shootout comes little than 3 weeks aft information forces killed apical Maoist commandant Madvi Hidma connected Nov 18 successful the forests of Maredumilli connected the Chhattisgarh-Andhra Prade-sh border. Hidma — 1 of the astir wanted Maoist guerrillas accused of executing much than 26 large attacks implicit 2 decades — was killed on with his woman Rajje alias Rajakka and 4 others.
