In the wee hours of Monday 18 Maoists were killed down in an exchange of fire with the Greyhounds of Andhra Pradesh and Odisha Police in Malkangiri forest area on the AP-Odisha border.
According to a PTI report a top police official in Andhra Pradesh confirmed the news saying, two constables of Greyhounds, an elite anti-Maoist force, were injured in the encounter that occurred during a routine combing operation being jointly carried out by police of both the states at Ramgurha in Malkangiri district of Odisha and the face-off lasted for about an hour.
Police have recovered four AK-47 rifles from the scene of the encounter.
The injured constables were shifted for treatment to the King George Hospital in Visakhapatnam by helicopter, the police official added.
AP Director General of Police Nanduri Sambasiva Rao left for Visakhapatnam immediately upon receiving news of the encounter.
The DGP said combing operation was still continuing as there was information that there were some more Maoists roaming in the region.
From Agencies, Feature image courtesy: Deccan Chronicle
