New Delhi, Rabi'I 26, 1439, Dec 14, 2017, SPA -- Eight suspected Maoist rebels were killed Thursday by security forces in southern India, police said. According to dpa, the rebels were killed in a gunfight in the Nellamadgu forest in Telangana, state police chief Mahender Reddy said in the capital, Hyderabad. The rebels attacked a team of police and paramilitary troops on a routine patrol. An exchange of fire took place, Reddy said. "The Maoists fled back into the jungles after which our forces found eight bodies of the rebels as well as a large cache of weapons," Reddy said. --SPA 16:49 LOCAL TIME 13:49 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/w563393