India's paramilitary kills 5 Naxals in Bihar gunfight
Xinhua, January 9, 2016 Adjust font size:
India's paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) Friday killed five Naxals in a gunfight in eastern state of of Bihar , India's official broadcaster All India Radio (AIR) said.
The gunfight according to officials broke out at Bhangoreya forest area of Aurangabad district, about 150 km south of Patna, the capital city.
"Bodies of the slian Naxals, an assault rifle and some ammunition have been recovered from the site," the broadcaster quoting a senior CRPF official Ratan Sanjay as having said, "Gunfight with Naxals is going on and combining operation has been intensified."
The broadcaster quoting police sources said a CRPF man was also wounded in the gunfight.
Naxalites, also known as "Maoists", began in 1967 as a network of leftwing ideologues and young recruits in the village of Naxalbari outside Kolkata, the capital of West Bengal state.
Currently they are active in more than a third of India's 600-odd districts across central and eastern India.
In a separate incident during the day, two Border Security Force men including an officer were killed and another wounded when Naxals targetted their motorcycle with a landmine in Odisha's Koraput district. Endit