Maoist killed in Chhattisgarh gunfight

RAIPUR - Troopers of the Border Security Force (BSF) assisted by state police personnel killed a Maoist guerrilla in gun battle with the rebels in a forested pocket of Chhattisgarh’s restive Bastar region Friday, officials said.

The gun battle broke out in Kanker district’s iron ore rich Rowghat area, about 300 km south of capital Raipur.

“Rebels opened fire on a contingent of BSF and District Force personnel and they retaliated strongly. One rebel was killed on the spot while several of his colleagues managed to escape. We recovered some arms and explosives from the encounter site,” officials at the police headquarters here told IANS.