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Raipur: A suspected Maoist was on Monday gunned down in an encounter with security forces in the forest under Kistaram police station limits in Bastar in Chhattisgarh, police said.
A search party comprising personnel of District Reserve Guard (DRG), counterinsurgency wing of Chhattisgarh police, and CoBRA (Commando Battalion for Resolute Action), the elite unit of CRPF, came under attack by armed Naxalites in the Kistaram forest, leading to an encounter between them, a district police officer said.
Security forces later recovered the body of a Maoist along with a weapon at the encounter site, police said.
The slain ultra was yet to be identified.
With this, 33 Maoists have so far been killed in separate encounters in Bastar division comprising seven districts in the current year so far.
