Three Naxalites were killed in an encounter with security personnel in Chhattisgarh's Kanker district on Sunday, a senior police official said.

The gun battle broke out in the forest of Ravas along the border of Kanker and Gariaband districts, where a joint team of security personnel was out on an anti-Naxal operation in the morning, the official said.

Personnel belonging to the District Reserve Guard (DRG), a unit of state police, from Kanker and Gariaband were involved in the operation, he said.

The official said an intermittent exchange of fire is still under way.

Bodies of three Naxalites and three weapons have been recovered from the encounter site so far, he said, adding that further details were awaited.

Area committee members of the Maoists are among the killed cadres, he said

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