By IANS,
Raipur : Two Maoist insurgents were shot dead in a gun battle with police while one policeman was killed in a separate gun fight in Chhattisgarh Monday, an official said.
Both incidents were reported from Bijapur district of the state’s southern mineral-rich forested Bastar region where insurgents had killed three people and injured five in an attack late Sunday.
Two rebels were killed after a combing team of the district police force and special police officers (SPOs) challenged armed insurgents in the early hours of Monday in a thickly forested area of Santoshpur, some 450 km south of here.
“The rebels were killed in a heavy gun battle. Police recovered a hand grenade and two tiffin bombs of the insurgents from the encounter site,” Bijapur district police chief Ankit Garg told IANS.
He added that a head constable of the district force was killed when rebels attacked a police team in Gangloor area.
Chhattisgarh is one of the worst Maoist violence-hit states and police say more than 1,100 people have been killed in this state in Maoist-related violence since 2004.