Security personnel and Naxalites exchange fire in Chhattisgarh forest

Bijapur, An encounter broke out between security personnel and Naxalites in Chhattisgarh's Bijapur district on Tuesday, a police official said.

The exchange of fire started this morning in the Indravati National Park forest when a team of security personnel was out on an anti-Naxal operation based on inputs about the presence of senior Maoist cadres, he added.

The intermittent gunfight was underway, and further details are awaited, he added.