Raipur: Police said that two Maoist, including a local operation team (LOS) commander, were killed on Wednesday with the security forces in the Sukma region in the South Basttar of Chhattisgarh.
A senior police officer said that the match took place around two hours at the Kukanar Police Station at the Pusgunna Forest.
According to him, a search operation was launched on certain intelligence inputs regarding the presence of some armed Maoists in the region.
Maoists opened fire when the security personnel search party surrounded them in the forest and caused violent fire changes between them.
Later, the bodies of two naxes, including a female staff in the encounter area, were rescued.
One of the murdered Maoists was defined as Baman, the Los commander of Pedaras, who carried the RS five lakh award.
The body of the other deceased Naxal, a woman, has not yet been identified.
Police, one Insian rifle, a 12 -hole rifle, other weapons and explosives and explosives, he said.
Police said that additional reinforcement teams were deployed and other Maoist cadres that may have escaped by taking advantage of the land, and intense search operations in the surrounding forests continued.
