Encounter breaks out between security personnel and Naxalites in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur

Bijapur, Jun 5 (PTI) An encounter broke out between security personnel and Naxalites in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district on Thursday, a police official said.

The exchange of fire started in a forest of the Indravati National Park when a joint team of security personnel was out on an anti-Naxal operation following inputs about the presence of senior Maoist cadres, he said.

An intermittent gunfight is underway, and further details are awaited, he added. PTI COR TKP NR