Maoist who blew up 14 security personnel shot dead in Gadchiroli

Credit: IndiaTimes- Published on December 14, 2023
Maoist deputy commander Durgesh Watti, who engineered the 2019 Jambulkheda landmine blast that blew up 14 security personnel, was shot dead on Thursday by C-60 commandos in the dense Bodhintola forest in Gadchiroli along the Maharashtra-Chhattisgarh border. Two more guerrillas were also killed in the hour-long encounter. The body...

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Maoism

Variety of Marxism–Leninism developed by Mao Zedong
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Gadchiroli

City in Maharashtra, India
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Chhattisgarh

State in central India
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Maharashtra

State in Western India
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