Two Maoists had been killed in an ‘exchange of fire’ with the police in Puttapadu forest space underneath Chhattisgarh’s Kistaram police station limits near Telangana’s border village of Yerrampadu in Charla mandal this morning.
The incident happened at about 6 a.m. when a joint group of the Telangana’s Greyhounds police and the district particular occasion police was out on a combing operation in Puttapadu forest, straddling the Telangana-Chhattisgarh border.
The Maoists opened fireplace on the combing police occasion, triggering the alternate of fireside, police mentioned. Police discovered two our bodies of Maoists throughout a search operation on the encounter website after the cessation of gunfire.
One of the deceased Maoists was recognized because the banned outfit’s Charla Local Organising Squad (LOS) commander Madakam Yerraiah alias Rajesh. A self-loading rifle and one other firearm had been recovered from the spot.
Police intensified combing operation in the jungles alongside the restive inter-State border following the incident.
