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GAYA: Four suspected Maoist commanders were killed in an encounter carried out jointly by the CRPF, COBRA and the district armed police jawans on Tuesday. Security personnel also recovered three AK-47 and one Insas rifle from the encounter site at Maunbar under the Dumaria police station area, surrounded by dense forest and hills.
“The slain Maoists have been identified as zone commander Amresh Bhokta, sub-zone commanders Shivpujan, Shreekant Bhuian and Uday Paswan,” said Nisheet Kumar, CRPF 159 battalion commandant.
Security personnel had received inputs that an armed squad of the Maoists led by their commander Amresh Bhokta was camping in Dumaria to commit violence. On Tuesday, an encounter ensued between security personnel and the Maoists.
Four Maoists killed in gun battle in Bihar (Ld)
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Gaya : , March 16 (IANS) Four Maoists, including a zonal commander and three sub-zonal commanders, were killed in Bihar s Gaya district on Tuesday in a gun battle with security forces.
The gun battle began in the morning when the 205 CoBRA unit of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) along with a local unit of the paramilitary wing and state police force carried out an operation in Maunbar area under the Dumaria police station in Gaya district.
By Nava Thakuria
Indian media fraternity sets to bid farewell to the Covid-19 pandemic year 2020 with the horrible statistics of journo-killings with some dangerous countries for working journalists in the world. The largest democracy in the globe witnessed killings of 15 scribes till the last week of December and the populous country also lost over 50 working journalists to novel coronavirus infection aggravated ailments.
India along with Mexico emerged as the hazardous places for scribe this year as the global tally of media-victims to assailants reaches to 92 in 31 countries, said Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the Geneva-based media watchdog in its recent reports. Mexico, as it routinely observes journo-murders for several years, witnessed the killings of 12 scribes in 2020 followed by Pakistan (8 dead), Afghanistan (7), Iraq and Honduras (5 each), etc.
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