Nagpur, Nov 14 (PTI) A day after a gunfight between Gadchiroli police and Naxals left 26 ultras, including a top leader Milind Teltumbde, dead, a senior official on Sunday said the number of people getting recruited from the district, some 170 kilometres from Nagpur, into the outlawed movement was steadily falling.

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Gadchiroli Superintendent of Police Ankit Goyal said the arrest, surrender and neutralization of ultras had led a fall in the response from the youth to the Maoist ideology powering the Naxal movement.

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"Out analysis shows 40 per cent of active Naxals in Gadchiroli district have been recruited from outside," he said.

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