At least three Maoists and a CRPF personnel were killed in an encounter which took place in Belbha ghat forest area of Giridih in Jharkhand on Monday morning.
District official said that when the 7 battalion on Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) was on routine patrolling in the forest area in view of the parliamentary poll, the Maoists launched an attack on them early in the morning.
Both the CRPF personnel and the Maoists were engaged in encounter for sometime before the Maoists fled away from the scene. Giridh, 180 km from Ranchi, is a Maoist-affected area of Jharkhand. The bodies of three Maoists along with an AK-47 Rifle, three bullet magazines and four pipe bombs have been recovered from the encounter site, said a district official. “However, more details are awaited”, he added. A CRPF jawan (constable) too was killed in the encounter…the search operation is still on”, he said.
