Two Maoists were killed in an “exchange of fire” with the police in Puttapadu forest area along the Telangana-Chhattisgarh border village of Yerrampadu in Charla mandal on Sunday morning.
The incident took place at around 6.10 a.m. when a joint team of the Telangana’s Greyhounds police and the district special party police personnel was out on a combing operation in Puttapadu forest, straddling the Telangana-Chhattisgarh border, under Chhattisgarh’s Kistaram police station limits, police said.
The Maoists “opened fire” on the combing police party which returned the fire, triggering the “encounter”, police added.