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At least 31 Maoist insurgents and two Indian soldiers died on Sunday during a shootout in the dense jungle in Central India, where the security forces intensified efforts to suppress a long -lasting uprising. TASR reports according to AFP.
“Thirty -one rebels and two security workers are killed and two other workers are injured,” a high -ranking police officer told AFP.
The police secured automatic weapons and grenade launchers at the shooting site. The shootout broke out in the wooded areas of the Bijapur district in the Union State of Carnate, which is considered the center of insurgents.
According to government data, approximately 287 rebels died there last year in the intervention of security forces. More than 10,000 people were killed during the decade of the uprising. According to insurgents, they are fighting for the rights of marginalized indigenous people.
