HYDERABAD :
SIX cadres of the outlawed
CPI (Maoist) including two
women were killed after an
exchange of fire between the
ultras and police in
Bhadradri Kothagudem district of Telangana on
Thursday, police said.
Two commandos of the
Greyhounds, the elite antiNaxal force of Telangana
Police, were also injured in
the exchange of fire and were
shifted to a hospital and their
condition is out of danger,
they said.
The exchange of fire took
place at around 6.45 am in
the forest area of Mothe village under Karakagudem
police station limits when
the armed CPI (Maoist)
cadres opened fire indiscriminately on the police
party which was on patrol,
a release from police said.
After warning the Maoist
cadres to stop fire and in
self-defence, as the firing
from the Maoists did not
stop, the police party also
returned fire. After the firing stopped from CPI
(Maoist) armed cadres, the
police party searched the
area and found six bodies,
clad in olive green clothes,
it said.
The six dead were
CPI (Maoist) cadres of
Bhadradri KothagudemAlluri Sitharamaraju
Divisional Committee, the
release said.
The identities of the
deceased is yet to be established, it said. Based on
inputs that a Maoists team
crossed over to Telangana
from neighbouring Chhattisgarh, specialpolice
parties took up combing in
the area when the incident
happened, a senior police
official told PTI.
The dead included a senior cadre of the Maoists, he
said based on preliminary
probe. Police recovered
weapons including two AK47, one SLR, one .303 rifle,
one pistol and magazines,
liverounds,kitbagsandother materials from the spot,
hesaid.Furtherinvestigation
was on, police added.