A gun battle between bandits and policemen continued for the third day on Thursday in Uttar Pradesh's Chitrakoot district. Three cops have been killed in the gunfight so far, police said.

The gun battle began on Tuesday after a Special Task Force team reached Suruwal Rajapur village in Chitrakoot, 280 km from here, on a tip-off that bandits, including wanted criminal Ghanshyam Kewat, were hiding there.