Personnel belonging to the DRG from four districts – Narayanpur, Bastar, Kondagaon and Dantewada – and the Special Task Force (STF) were involved in the operation that was launched on Friday, he said.The identity of the killed Naxalites was yet to be ascertained.As per preliminary information, senior cadres of the PLGA (People’s Liberation Guerrilla Army) platoon number 32 of Dandakaranya Special Zonal Committee of Maoists are among the deceased, the official said.Automatic weapons, including AK-47 rifle and self loading rifle (SLR), were recovered from the spot, he said.On January 3, a Naxalite was killed in an encounter with security forces in Gariaband district which falls in Raipur division.Last year, 219 Naxalites were neutralised by security forces in separate encounters in the state, according to police.
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