An exchange of fire between the Security Forces (SFs) and the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres took place in the forest near Pebbampalle in Amavari Darakonda Panchayat (village level local self-Government institution) under Gudem Kotha Veedhi (G.K. Veedhi) Police Station limits in Visakhapatnam District of Andhra Pradesh on July 21, reports The Hindu. B. Krishna Rao, Superintendent of Police (SP), Visakhapatnam, said there was firing for a brief period when the SFs, led by the Greyhounds, the elite anti-Maoist force, were on a routine combing operation, however, there were no casualties or injuries on either side.