Central Reserve Police Force Officer Killed In Gunfight With Maoists

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The gunfight took place last night in Kistaram police station area
Maoists in a dense forest in the insurgency-hit Sukma district of Chhattisgarh, police said today.The gunfight took place last night in
Kistaram police station area when a team of CRPF's 212th battalion was out on a search-cum-area domination operation, Deputy Inspector
General of Police (South Bastar Range) Sundarraj P told PTI."Assistant Sub Inspector (ASI) Anil Kumar Maurya was killed in the incident," he
said.The deceased was a native of Madhya Pradesh.Security forces have launched a combing operation in the area, located around 500 km away
from the state capital Raipur, he added.(This story has not been edited by TheIndianSubcontinent staff and is auto-generated from a
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