MAOIST KILLED IN CHHATTISGARH ENCOUNTER: COPS

THE TRAIN WAS ON ITS WAY TO DIBRUGARH FROM LALGARH WHEN IT HIT THE TROLLEY ON THE SAME LINE

- Vijay Swaroop

KANKER: A Maoist with a bounty of 8 lakh was killed in an encounter with security personnel in Chhattisgarh's Kanker district on Friday, a police official said.

The gunfight broke out on a forested hill under Chhotebethiya police station limits when a joint team of District Reserve Guard (DRG) and Border Security Force (BSF) was out on an anti-Naxal operation, Kanker SP Indira Kalyan Elesela said.

The body of a woman Naxalite clad in "uniform" along with one .303 rifle, seven round of ammunition, one indigenous BGL (barrel grenade launcher), one walkie-talkie set, two mobile chargers and batteries, Maoist literature and documents, medicines and a large quantity of daily utility items were recovered from the spot, he said.