3 women among four left-wing extremists killed in Odisha
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Five Maoists were killed in a gunfight with the security forces in Odisha's Kalahandi district on Wednesday, a senior officer said.
The exchange of fire, in which a jawan of the Odisha Police's Special Operations Group (SOG) was also injured, took place in the Bhandarangi Sirki forest area on the Kalahandi- Kandhamal border, he said.
While four bodies were found from the forest after the gunfight, the body of another Maoist, a female, was recovered during the combing operation, Kalahandi's Superintendent of Police B Gangadhar told PTI.