Bodies of all the four are yet to be identified

Police recover pistols, detonators and cartridges

Vigorous combing operation on in Mahabubnagar district

MAHABUBNAGAR: Four CPI (Maoist) activists were killed in two separate encounters in the district on Saturday. Bodies of all the four naxalites are yet to be identified.

The police also recovered two country-made pistols, non-electrical detonators, some live cartridges two kit bags, revolutionary material and a plate from the places of the encounters.

According to police sources, around 3.30 a.m. on Saturday a special police party, which was on a combing operation, came across a group of Maoists at Boyagutta near Madanapuram in Kothakota mandal.

Both sides immediately exchanged fire for about 20 minutes. Later, the police found bodies of three men in the18-25 age group. Of them, the police suspect that one person might have participated in the killing of Chinnachintakunta police Sub-Inspector Moinuddin on Friday evening in the district. The police recovered a Tapancha, two kit bags, some used cartridges of 9 mm carbine along with revolutionary material.

Asked about the service revolver of Moinuddin, the police said it might have been taken away by other naxalites who escaped. The bodies were shifted to Wanaparthy area hospital.

Second encounter

After the killing of the Sub-Inspector of Police by Maoists the police have taken up combing operation vigorously in the district.

In another exchange of fire on the hillocks of Urukonda village in Midjil mandal in the wee hours of Saturday, a Maoist, suspected to be the member of an action team, was killed.

According to DSP, Shadnagar, Ravindra Naik, the police recovered one tapancha and about 100 non-electrical detonators. Some 50 to 60 rounds were fired by the police.

Meanwhile, the body of Moinuddin was kept at Government Headquarters Hospital, Mahabubnagar, after post-mortem. It will be handed over to family members on Sunday after paying homage at police parade grounds.

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