Raipur: Police fought a two-hour gun battle with Maoist guerrillas in Chhattisgarh's restive Bastar region Thursday and arrested two of the rebels.
The gunfight began in a forested pocket in Gangloor village, some 450 km south of Raipur, in Bijapur district when a search squad of District Force opened fire at a group of armed radicals who returned fire, police said.
"After about two hours we arrested two senior Maoist cadres. Blood stains indicate a few Maoists must have been either killed or injured," Avinash Mohanty, district superintendent of police, Bijapur, told reporters over phone.
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First Published: Thursday, November 05, 2009, 13:57