Overview

• The gunfight began in the morning in the Abhujmaad forest of Narayanpur, near the Maharashtra border, during a security search.
• Police said the operation was launched on specific inputs about Maoist presence in the area.
• Officers recovered the body of a male Naxalite from the site.
• Intermittent exchanges of fire were still reported at the scene at the time of the police briefing.
• Of the 248 Maoists reported killed this year, 219 were in Bastar, 27 in Gariaband, and 2 in Mohla-Manpur-Ambagarh Chowki, with police earlier citing a September 11 Gariaband encounter that killed 10 including leader Modem Balakrishna.