Officials said a special squad from the unit apprehended the Naxals identified as Madvi Muka (22), Madkami Deva (24), Madkami Ganga (24), Chinga (25), Budram (30) and Sanna (28) from the Nelavaram and Chichor villages of Sukma, located on the southern-most tip of the forested Bastar area.
They said all the six were wanted by the state police for various crimes and had warrants pending against them.
Seven personnel of the 230th battalion were killed in the landmine ambush when they were travelling in a civilian vehicle to transport a cooler for an ailing sniffer dog of the force named 'scout' on March 30 in the neighbouring Dantewada district.
The unit was brought in deployed here last November for special anti-Naxal operations along the Sukma-Dantewada axis which is notorious for the movement of armed Naxal cadres as it borders Odisha and Andhra Pradesh.
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