6 security personnel injured in encounter with Maoists in Chattisgarh

Six security personnel were injured, two of them seriously, in an encounter with maoists in Chhattisgarh’s insurgency-hit Sukma district on Saturday, the police said.

The gunfight took place in a forest in Chintagufa area, a senior police official here said.

Reinforcement was rushed to the spot, the official said, adding that further details were awaited.