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Chhattisgarh encounters: In a massive operation against Left Wing Extremism, security forces killed 22 Naxals in two separate encounters in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur and Kanker districts today (March 20).
18 Naxals were killed in an encounter in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district on Thursday, an official said. A police jawan was also killed in the encounter, he said. The gunfight broke out at around 7:00 am in a forest along the border of Bijapur and Dantewada districts when a joint team of security personnel was out of an anti-Naxal operation in Gangaloor police station area (in Bijapur), he said.
Bodies of 18 Naxals along with firearms and explosives were recovered from the spot, the senior police official said. A jawan of the state police’s District Reserve Guard (DRG) unit was also killed in the gunfight, he said. The operation was still underway in the area
