Police kill 3 Naxals, recover
stolen weapons within 48 hours
In a swift action, police recovered on Monday all the 24 firearms stolen by extremists of the outlawed People's War Group after blasting the Yadagirigutta police station in Nalgonda district on Saturday night.
Elsewhere in Andhra Pradesh, three PWG members were killed in separate encounters.
On Sunday, Director-General of Police Hemanta Dora had announced a reward of Rs 2 lakh to those providing information about the raid on the police station at the foot of the hill shrine in the constituency of Home Minister A Madhava Reddy.
The Naxalites had killed two policemen and a bystander and blown up the police station before escaping with 17 muskets and seven other weapons.
Elsewhere in Nizamabad district, Naxalites burnt two Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation buses near Sadasiva village in protest against the "Banswada killing". A rice miller's house and mill were blown up by 15 PWG militants at Reddivarri village of Chittoor district, police said.
Police in Hyderabad said four Naxalites of the Aler dalam (platoon), who were travelling in a tractor-trailer, hurled three bombs at a police party which stopped the vehicle for a routine check near Bibinagar in Nalgonda district. The bombs did not explode.
But police opened fire in retaliation, killing two extremists on the spot. The other two escaped in the darkness.
In another incident, a secretary of the Radical Youth League, a front of the PWG, was killed in an encounter with the police at Jubileenagar, on the outskirts of Regunta village in Warangal district. The RYL secretary was identified as Bikshapathi.
UNI
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