Three personnel of Chhattisgarh’s District Reserve Guard and 12 suspected Maoists were killed in a gunfight in Bijapur district on Wednesday, reported The Indian Express .

Two other District Reserve Guard personnel sustained bullet injuries and are in stable condition, the newspaper quoted Bijapur Superintendent of Police Jitendra Kumar Yadav as saying.

The security personnel who died were identified as Head Constable Monu Wadadi, and Constables Dujaru Gonde and Ramesh Sodi.

With these deaths, the number of security personnel killed in Chhattisgarh this year has risen to 23, The Indian Express reported.

The gunfight took place during a joint operation launched by security forces after they received intelligence inputs about Maoist presence in the area, the newspaper quoted unid

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