Malkangiri, April 25: After the abduction of district Collector R Vinyl Krishna the police and the Maoists had a face off and a Maoist woman cadre was killed in an encounter with weapons and explosives being recovered on Sunday.
Acting on a tip-off, jawans of the elite anti-Maoist Special Operations Group (SOG) and police raided a dense forest in Chitrakonda, 70 km from here and were challenged by the Maoists. When the security personnel retaliated, a fierce gunbattle ensued in which the woman ultra assumed to be Gajala (25) was killed. Her name has been assumed from the fact that it has been tattooed in her hands The slain Maoist, who was in uniform, is believed to be from neighbouring Andhra Pradesh.
——–Agencies