PLFI activist killed in encounter

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Press Trust of India Medininagar (Jharkhand)
Last Updated : Mar 07 2016 | 8:02 PM IST
A self-styled zonal commander of ultra outfit People's Liberation Front of India was today killed in an encounter with the district armed police force in Naxalism-hit Palamau district, the police said.
The encounter took place when the activists of PLFI, who were preparing meals, opened fire at the police force approaching them in course of its special drive in the naxal-affected areas, Additional Superintendent of Police, Kanhaiya Singh, said.
The police force retaliated to the firing in self-defense and the zonal commander Amrit Yadav, a resident of Kasmar in the Panki police station limit, was killed in the firing, he said.
The other extremists fled, the police said adding three rifles, some live cartridges and Naxal literature were rocovered from the spot.
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First Published: Mar 07 2016 | 8:02 PM IST

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