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The death toll of Maoists killed in an eight-hour-long security encounter in Chhattisgarh's Bijapur has increased to 13 after personnel recovered three more bodies on Wednesday morning, authorities said...
The encounter broke out at about 6 am on Tuesday when a joint team of security personnel was conducting an anti-Naxal operation at a forest in Lenda village...
Tuesday's operation, involving personnel from the District Reserve Guard, Special Task Force, Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and Commando Battalion for Resolute Action (CoBRA), was carried out after security officials received a tip-off about the presence of a senior Maoist named Papa Rao in the area.. Bijapur district comes under the Bastar Lok Sabha constituency, which will go to polls in the first phase of the national elections on April 19, the PTI news agency reported...
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