Nagpur: Thirteen Maoists have been killed in Maharashtra’s Gadchiroli district in an operation carried out by the elite C-60 commandos. Gadchiroli DIG Sandip Patil said the police operation was carried out in the forest area. The encounter started at around 4.00am in Paithi jungles under Kotmi outpost of the district. Sources said that the security forces had been tipped off about the presence of a large number of Maoists in the area. So combing operations had been started and that finally led to the encounter. At the time of writing this report, the encounter is still on.
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