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Maoist leader Kishanji reported injured in West Bengal forest gun battle | Maoist leader Kishanji may have been injured in a gun battle between security forces and the rebels inside the Lakhanpur forest in West Bengal's Paschim Medinipur District. "Kishanji is suspected to have been seriously injured during
the seven-hour-long gun-battle between security forces and the rebels, and is
believed to be undergoing treatment at a secret location in the district by local
quacks," quoted The Hindu. It has been reported that during the exchange of fire
the rebels suffered heavy casualties and the police suspect the casualty figure
to be at least ten. The West Bengal Police has refused to comment on whether
Kishanji
was injured, but the State's Director General of Police (DGP) Bhupinder Singh,
has said there was a possibility of a top Maoist leader being present at the gun
battle site. "It is suspected that several of those rebels injured in the firing
have succumbed to their injuries." There was also a report that a student of the
city-based Jadavpur University was one of the Maoists killed in the exchange of
fire," Singh, adding there was no confirmation. Based on inputs from several
channels
of information, including the Ministry of Home Affairs and the Intelligence Branch
of Andhra Pradesh, The Hindu reports that Kishanji might have "suffered serious
bullet injuries, if not killed." It has been reported that the Maoists started
firing more heavily than as they moved away from the area, the tactic used by
the rebels to shift the bodies of their slain comrades so that the police cannot
recover them. |
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