8 Naxalites, one security personnel killed in encounter in Chhattisgarh

Narayanpur: Eight Naxalites and one security personnel were killed in an encounter in Narayanpur district of Chhattisgarh on Saturday, police said.

Two other security personnel sustained injuries in the incident, they said.

The gunfight



broke out this morning in the forest of Abhujmad when a joint team of the security personnel from four districts - Narayanpur, Kanker, Dantewada and Kondagaon - was out on an anti-Naxal operation, a senior police official in Raipur said.