30 Maoists Killed In Clash With Security Forces At Chhattisgarh's Dantewada Border

As per a statement issued by Bastar police, the encounter started around 1 pm in the forest of Abhujmad on the Narayanpur-Dantewada inter-district border when a joint team of security personnel was out on anti-Naxal operation.

Abujhmad straddles between Maharashtra and Chhattisgarh, is known as ‘unknown hill’ as the 6,000 sq km of thick forest has not been surveyed since the British era. The jungle is the epicenter of Maoist activities and about a dozen senior cadres of CPI (Maoist) are said to be still camping there.

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