Kerala police, Maoists exchange fire
By : DC Correspondent
Update: 2015-10-18 05:19 GMT
PALAKKAD: The Maoists and the Thunder Bolt team of Kerala police reportedly exchanged several rounds of fire at a forest area near Attapady here on Saturday noon.
The police said that the incident happened eight km east of Kadukamannu and that the Thunder Bolt team recovered two bags containing rice and Maoist literature from the area.
“At 12 noon, the Thunder Bolt team was carrying out a routine combing operation in the forest area from where we had received information about Maoist activity.
The first shots were fired by the Maoists and none of the policemen got injured. We are not sure about casualties on the other side,” district police chief N. Vijayakumar told DC.
According to police sources, there were four to five members in the Maoist team. The police were yet to recover any bullets from the area fired by the Maoists and combing operations would continue on Sunday morning.
Mr Vijayakumar said that the ultras fired at the Thunder Bolt team to escape from the area during the combing operations and the police had to retaliate.
On reports that two Maoists were injured in the firing, he said that the police had no such information. The police on December 7, 2014 had claimed that they had exchanged several rounds of fire with the ultras at Vellamunda in Wayanad.