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Four Maoists were gunned down during an hour-long gun battle with security personnel in Jharkhand’s Latehar district over the weekend. Acting on information, a team, consisting of the paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and local police cornered the rebels, who were taking bath in a river in one of the interior regions in the district. In the ensuing encounter, four to five ultras were reportedly killed. The Superintendent of Police of Latehar, Kranti Kumar, said police recovered three assault rifles, 33 bullets, rupees 2,500 and some other materials from spot. “We got information that around 20 to 25 Maoists were bathing. We set a team consisting of our district police and the CRPF ( India ’s paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force) and rushed to the spot. Maoists ran away after we opened fire. We have recovered three rifles and 33 cartridges during this operation,” Kumar said. Maoists have also significantly increased their presence in tribal and rural regions in Chhattisgarh, Bihar, West Bengal and Odisha. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has termed them the biggest threat to internal security.

Four Maoists gunned down in encounter with security Jharkhand’s Latehar district