Two women Naxalites were killed in an encounter with security personnel in Chhattisgarh’s Narayanpur district on Wednesday.
The gunfight broke out at a forest under Kohkameta police station limits in Abhujmaad area when a joint team of the District Reserve Guard (DRG) and Special Task Force (STF) was out on an anti-Naxal operation.
During the search, an INSAS rifle, a .315 weapon, medical items, and other counterfeit material were recovered, informed senior police official informed.
DRG personnel, belonging to Narayanpur and Kondagaon districts, were involved in the operation launched based on inputs about the presence of senior cadres of Maad division of Maoists, he said.
The operation was still underway, he added.