At least seven Maoist insurgents were shot dead by Indian security forces on Tuesday, police told AFP, the latest clash in a decades-long conflict waged in the country’s wild central forests.
The guerrillas were killed in a remote part of the central state of Chhattisgarh, which has been the site of a number of deadly assaults on rebel encampments this year.
Security deployments in the state have been bolstered in the past month with India currently in the middle of a six-week general election.
“Bodies of seven Maoists have been recovered,” Bastar district police inspector-general Sundarraj Pattilingam told AFP.
Two of the cadres killed were women, he said, adding that a large quantity of weapons including automatic firearms had been recovered.
Tuesday’s clash was the third of its kind this month in the state, after the killing of 29 Maoist guerrillas on April 16 and another 13 on April 2.
Around 90 Maoists have been…
Source: Guardian Newspaper
