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RAIPUR: Maoist casualties in Wednesday’s operation by safety personnel in Chhattisgarh’s Bastar area rose to 18 after six extra our bodies, together with wished PLGA commander Vella Modiyam, had been retrieved Thursday from the gunfight web site alongside the Dantewada-Bijapur border.9 of the slain guerrillas, who had a mixed bounty of Rs 1.3 crore on their heads, had been girls. Three safety personnel had been killed within the preventing. The operation dealt what police mentioned was a decisive blow to the Maoist citadel in Gangaloor. “Vella, aka Mangu Modiyam, was the Maoists’ operational and intelligence commander in Gangaloor and concerned in a number of crimes, together with the killing of a minor, a pupil and a villager in Peddakorma,” Bastar IGP Sundarraj mentioned.CM Vishnu Deo Sai lauded the personnel concerned within the operation, saying the bravery of the trio killed in motion “will not go in useless”. His deputy Vijay Sharma mentioned Naxalism in Chhattisgarh was now on its “final legs”, with forces engaged in a mop-up throughout Bastar.