Bijapur: An encounter broke out between security personnel and Naxalites in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district on Thursday, a police official said. The face-off started in the morning at a forest in the southern part of Bijapur when a team of District Reserve Guard (DRG) was out on an anti-Naxalite operation based on the presence of armed cadres in the area, he said. Also Read Encounter breaks out between security forces and Naxalites in ChhattisgarhAn intermittent gunfight was underway and further details were awaited, he added.