Five naxals shot dead

Jagdalpur, July 2 (UNI) Five Naxals were shot dead today in a police encounter at a forest in Chhattisgarh's Narayanpur Police District, police said.

''On a tip off about Naxal presence in Aturbeda village of this district, police reached the village, the police team did not find the Naxals and was returning when the ultras triggered a landmine blast,'' District Superintendent of Police Sundarraj P said.

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