(MENAFN- Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)) NEW DELHI, Dec 12 (KUNA) -- Indian police announced on Thursday that at least seven Maoist rebels were gunned down in an encounter with security forces in Narayanpur district of central Indian state of Chhattisgarh.
The Press Trust of India said quoting a senior police official that the gunfight broke out in the forest of south Abujhmaad when a joint team of police and the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) was out on an anti-Maoist operation.
Personnel of District Reserve Guard of police from Narayanpur, Dantewada, Bastar and Kondagaon districts along with CRPF teams carried out the operation that led to the killing of seven militants. After the operation, the forces recovered bodies of the slain Maoists.
Maoist rebels are active in various Indian states including Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Odisha, Bihar and Maharashtra.
The banned group is waging an armed struggle for decades against the government and its developmental projects in order to establish a communist society toppling the current system which they call as semi-feudal and semi-colonial. (end)
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