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Five more bodies of personnel of the elite anti-Naxal force Commando Battalion for Resolute Action (CoBRA) have been recovered from the Dantewada Forests in Chattisgarh. A major offensive was launched against the Naxals following specific intelligence inputs about them being present in the forest. According to CoBRA sources, the bodies of Assistant Commandant Rakesh Chaurasia, a sub-inspector, a head constable and two constables were recovered during a combing operation in the thick forests near Singamadagu. On Friday, Assistant Commandant Manoranjan Singh was killed during a gunbattle. So far, the death toll has been pegged at six. Security forces also unearthed an arms manufacturing unit. Nine Naxals have been killed during Operation Red Hunt so far.