Maoists kill 2 BSF men, encounter underway

March 12, 2016 09:26

Two Border Security Force personnel have been killed and four injured in a fierce encounter which is underway with Maoists in Kanker district in Chhattisgarh.

In the special operations which were launched from Kanker last night by 170,122 and 165 Battalions of the BSF with the civil police near Becha village, a gunbattle ensued with Naxals in which six BSF personnel were injured.

The injured personnel were evacuated to Raipur in a chopper during which two of them succumbed to their injuries.

Further details awaited.

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