RAIPUR: Seven naxalites including three women were killed in an encounter with security forces in
Chhattisgarh's
Bastar district on Saturday, police said.
The encounter took place in a forest near Tiriya village under Nagarnar police station limits around 4 pm, said deputy inspector
general of police (anti-naxal operations) Sundarraj P.
A joint team of District Reserve Guard and Special Task Force of state police was out on anti-naxalite operation when the gunbattle broke out, he told PTI.