At least three Naxals, including a woman, were gunned down in an encounter that broke out between police and Naxals in the Kadla village of Madhya Pradesh s Balaghat district on Monday.
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BHOPAL: Bullets know no gender, say officers of Madhya Pradesh police, having shot five suspected women Maoists since 2012, three of them in the last six weeks.
Maoists Shobha and Savitri were gunned down in an encounter in Balaghat on December 12 and Sharda was shot dead on November 6 this year. MP Police have killed seven Maoists in the last eight years, with women making up 70% of the body count.
Three women were natives of Chhattisgarh and two of Maharashtra. Six more women Maoists were killed in neighboring Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra, Odisha, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh in just one week.
The Maoist’s Central Military Commission (CMC) recently said that 839 women cadres have been killed in the past two decades.
Sukma Naxal attack: Madhya Pradesh on high alert; Odisha seals border with Chhattisgarh
Sukma Naxal attack: Madhya Pradesh on high alert; Odisha seals border with Chhattisgarh
The Naxalites Mounted The Assault In The Kalapathar Area Of South Bastar Region, Where Left-Wing Extremism Is Rampant.
News Nation Bureau | Edited By : Vikas Mehta | Updated on: 25 Apr 2017, 04:38:23 PM
New Delhi:
In the wake of the Maoist attack in which 25 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel were killed, the Madhya Pradesh and Odisha police have sealed their borders and issued a high alert in the Naxal-affected areas.
As the apprehensions are high that Maoists’ movement could be observed in Madhya Pradesh’s Balaghat region and Odisha’s Malkangiri district after a day of carnage, the senior police officials informed that the security has been scaled up in the regions to curb any influx in their respective states.