SAA event in Chhattisgarh, Sukma District area, India on Fri 22nd July 2022

A Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadre was killed in an encounter with the Security Forces (SFs) in a forested patch near Muler village under Phulbagdi Police Station limits in Sukma District of Chhattisgarh on July 22, reports The Pioneer. Sukma, Superintendent of Police (SP), Sunil Sharma said that the gunfight took place around 3.30 pm in a hilly forest area near Muler village in the Phulbagdi police station, where a joint team of the District Reserve Guard (DRG) from Sukma and Dantewada Districts was out on an anti-Naxal [Left Wing Extremism, LWE] operation. A group of Maoists from the Kerlapal Area Committee opened fire at the patrolling team and tried to ambush it in the Gogunda Hill area, following which the security personnel retaliated, he said, adding, after the skirmish ended, the body of a male cadre was recovered from the spot, whose identity is yet to be ascertained.