At least ten maoists were killed in an encounter with police in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district on Friday morning, a senior official of the Telangana Police said.
The maoists were killed in a joint operation by the Telangana and Chhattisgarh Police.
A jawan was also injured in the gunfight which took place in the Pujari Kanker forests under Pamed police station area, around 500 km from Raipur, Bijapur SP Mohit Garg said.
A cache of weapons was recovered from the encounter site, Garg said.
A clear picture would emerge later, the Telangana police official said.
The bodies are being shifted to a nearby hospital for post-mortem and other formalities, the official said .
The identity of killed maoists was not immediately known, but security agencies believe some top maoist leaders could be among those killed, officials said.