One Maoist ultra was killed and two security men were injured in an encounter in a forest in Jharkhand's Seraikela-Kharswan district today, DIG (Kolhan range) A K Singh said.
The encounter took place in a forest between Kalerango and Chatnibeda villages under naxal-affected Kuchai police station.
Singh told PTI that the deceased was in uniform and a massive search operation was on to check whether any other Moist was killed in the encounter.
The injured security men were being flown to Jamshedpur for admission in Tata Main Hospital.
Seraikela-Kharswan district Superintendent of Police, Upendra Kumar said acting on an information that the Maoists were about to assemble in the forest, personnel of the Commando Battalion for Resolute Action (COBRA), CRPF and district police rushed to the spot for an operation.
The Maoists fired on seeing the security personnel who retaliated triggering the gunfight.
