Three naxals were gunned down in an encounter with security forces in Chhattisgarh's insurgency-hit Sukma district late on Saturday, 14 September, the police said.
The gun-battle took place around 6 pm in a forest near Tadmetla-Mukram nullah under Chintalnar police station area when a team of the police's District Reserve Guard was out on patrolling, Deputy Inspector General (anti-naxal operations) Sundarraj P told PTI.
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On getting information that naxals had dug up a road near Tadmetla, security forces had launched the operation in the area, he said.
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