Hummingbird News Desk
RANCHI, 26 MAR: Three Naxalites were shot dead by the security forces at a forest in Jharkhand’s Latehar district on Saturday morning.
The Naxalites belonged to Tritiya Prastuti Committee (TPC), a CPI (Maoist) breakaway faction, Inspector General of Police (Operations) Amol V Homkar said.
The Naxalites were killed in a gunfight with the forces at a forest in Manika police station area, he said.
Police claimed that a few more Naxalites were injured in the gunfight in Kawakhar forest as bloodstains were spotted at different locations of the forest.
The police had a tip-off that an armed squad of TPC, led by its leaders Rakesh Ganjhu, Rajesh Oraon, Nathuni, and Jitendra Yadav, would meet at Hesalwar and Marwar forests of the district.
A joint team of Jharkhand police and Jharkhand Jaguar were sent to carry out a search operation in the area on Saturday morning.
“In Kawakhar forest, the Naxalites fired at the police party which retaliated in self-defence,” Homkar said.
The officer said that when the gunfight came to an end, a search operation was carried out in the forest area following which the three bodies were recovered.
The police also claimed of having recovered a self-loading rifle, cartridges, and ammunition storage devices from the spot.
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