Chhattisgarh: 12 Maoists killed in encounter with security forces in Bijapur

Twelve Maoists were killed in an encounter with security forces in Chhattisgarh's Bijapur district, police said on Sunday morning. The encounter comes a week after eight Maoists were killed in another operation security forces launched in Bijapur district. The gunfight in which eight Maoists were killed broke out on January 31 when a joint team of security personnel was out on an anti-Maoist operation.

Personnel of the District Reserve Guard and Special Task Force of the state police along with the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and its elite unit CoBRA (Commando Battalion for Resolute Action) were involved in the operation which was launched on Friday after receiving information about the presence of cadres of the `West Bastar division' of the Maoists in the area, he had said.