As many as 14 Maoists were killed in an encounter with security personnel in Chhattisgarh's Bastar region on Friday, a senior police official said. However, ANI has put the toll at 30.
The gunfight broke out at around 1 pm in the forest of Abhujmaad on the Narayanpur-Dantewada inter-district border when a joint team of security personnel was out on anti-Naxal operation, he said.
After the guns fell silent, bodies of the slain Maoists along with a cache of weapons, including an AK-47 rifle and one SLR (self-loading rifle), were recovered from the encounter spot, the official said.
A search operation was still underway in the area, he added.
After this latest encounter, 171 Maoists have been gunned down by security forces in separate gun battles in the Bastar region comprising seven districts including Dantewada and Narayanpur, so far this year, police said.
