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New Delhi, May 13
The Gadchiroli police in Maharashtra busted a Maoist camp in an encounter at the Maharashtra-Chhattisgarh border.
The officials said that the police teams worked on the intelligence received that the Bhamragad Dalam of Maoists had set up a camp near the newly opened foot overbridge in Kawande, Gadchiroli.
The police launched an operation with 200 C-60 commandos. C-60 is a special commando unit of the Maharashtra Police formed to deal with Maoists.
The officials informed that the commandos were carrying out a search of the area, Maoist formations fired indiscriminately at the commandos, which led the force to retaliate strongly. After two hours of indiscriminate firing, Maoists fled and the commando team searched the post.
The searches at the spot led to recovery of an INSAS automatic weapon and a single-shot rifle, one magazine, several live rounds, detonators, and a large amount of Naxal literature and other paraphernalia.
On May 8, three junior commandos of the Greyhounds, Telangana’s anti-Maoist task force, were killed in a landmine blast triggered by Maoists at the Telangana-Chhattisgarh border area.
