Arms recovered at the site of a gunfight with Maoists and Odisha Cops personnel in Odisha’s Kandhamal district on July 5,2020 Photo: Unique Plan
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Two women amongst the deceased.
The Odisha police scored a major success in their anti-Naxal operations when 4 CPI (Maoist) cadres were gunned down in Kandhamal district on Sunday.
On a tip-off, personnel of the Unique Operation Group (SOG), an anti-Naxal force, and the District Voluntary Force (DVF), an unique constabulary unit of the State police, rushed to a forest area of the Sirla gram panchayat under the Tumudibandh police limitations of Kandhamal early on Sunday.
” There was an exchange of fire in between Maoists and SOG and DVF near Tumudibandh. The security forces were fired upon and they fired back in self defence. There were four casualties on Maoist side. Some of them were hurt. Combing operations were going o