naxalite attack kill 8 in bihar

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Naxalite attack kills 8 in Bihar
Press Trust of India
Sunday, July 1, 2007 (Sasaram)
A large group of naxalites simultaneously attacked a police station and an outpost in Bihar's Rohtas district on Saturday, killing five policemen and three others.

The rebels also looted a huge cache of arms and ammunition.

Nearly 250 CPI(Maoist) rebels swooped down on Rajpur police station and Baghaila outpost and killed five policemen, a chowkidar and two civilians and looted four self-loading rifles, eight 303 rifles, two INSAS rifles and three carbines, besides hundreds of rounds of ammunition.

Eight others, including four policemen were injured in the attack, which took place around midnight on Saturday.

Before retreating the naxalites also blew up the building of the police station and outpost using dynamites, the police said adding it charred the bodies of two victims beyond recognition.

The deceased have been identified as Phulchand Munda, Shivdayal Ram, Ghoran Mandal, Mahavir Ram, Vimal Toppo (all policemen), Rajbali Singh (chowkidar), Bittu and Hardayal Ram (both villagers).

Raids have been launched to apprehend the culprits, district superintendent of police N H Khan said.

The attack comes close on the heels of the two-day economic blockade by the proscribed outfit from June 26 against the ''neo-liberal'' policies of the Centre, including creation of special economic zones and alleged torture of their comrades in police custody.

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44 Indian troops, Maoists killed in clashes

http://www.dawn.com/2007/07/11/int1.htm

RAIPUR (India), July 10: More than 40 troops and Maoist rebels were killed in one of the deadliest clashes to date in revolt-hit central India, officials said Tuesday.

Vishwa Ranjan, police chief of the Indian state of Chhattisgarh, said 44 bodies found so far at the site of the savage gunbattle included the corpses of 24 troops and 20 Maoist insurgents.

“A search is now on for our remaining men missing in the area,” Ranjan said in state capital Raipur, some 500 kilometres (310 miles) from Dantewada district, where the clashes occurred late on Monday and Tuesday.

A 115-strong security contingent was rushed to Dantewada on Monday to target a suspected Maoist outpost.

Officials spoke of fierce fighting in the jungles of Dantewada, a sprawling tribal district where the outlawed guerrillas hold absolute sway.

“Both the sides used mortars and light machine guns,” a senior state security officer said in Raipur.

The troops were sent following a tip-off on the whereabouts of a rebel camp in Chhattisgarh.

“It looks like it was a set-up,” a federal home ministry official said — referring to what appeared to be a well-planned ambush by the increasingly active ultra-leftist rebels. The officials said the soldiers appeared to have been outnumbered by five to one.

Maoist rebels operate in 14 of India's 29 states, with their area of activity spanning from the border with Nepal down to Andhra Pradesh state in the south.

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh last year described them as the most serious threat to national security.

New Delhi earlier on Tuesday deployed two combat helicopters to search for the missing troops in the heavily wooded area.

In March, 55 policemen were killed in the worst-ever Maoist attack in Chhattisgarh.

That attack followed the murder of federal MP Sunil Mahato in adjoining Jharkhand state — the first assassination of a national-level politician by the outlawed Maoists.Indian experts say the increased Maoist attacks are part of a radical leftwing drive to force security forces on the defensive.

Tens of thousands of people have been displaced in Chhattisgarh by the conflict and are now living in shelters as Indian counter-insurgency forces operate in the lawless countryside.

India's Congress party-led government is propped up by national communist parties, with some of them suspected to have close ideological ties with the outlawed Maoists.—AFP

 

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“It looks like it was a set-up,” a federal home ministry official said — referring to what appeared to be a well-planned ambush by the increasingly active ultra-leftist rebels. The officials said the soldiers appeared to have been outnumbered by five to one.

D-umb police!!!

 

[Adux]

police going puh-lease......idiots, There is urgent need of reforming, mordernizing, arming and increasing size, infrastructure, increase pay hike , overall of the Indian Police system.

 

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Indian Maoists blow up TV, power sites

http://www.dawn.com/2007/07/13/int2.htm

HYDERABAD (India): Maoist rebels destroyed TV and power sites near a major port in southeast India on Thursday, less than a week after they killed 24 troops in an ambush in a nearby state, police said.

The attacks on a television transmission tower and a power station took place in a town near the busy port city of Vishakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh state, a hotbed of left-wing insurgent activity.

“They used gelatine sticks (dynamite) to blast the TV centre, the power station and a state guest house,” police chief A. Sabharwal said from the port, adding that no casualties were reported.

The attacks came just a few days after troops fought a bloody battle with Maoist rebels in the jungles of nearby Chhattisgarh state. A total of 24 soldiers and 20 rebels died in the fighting, which ended Tuesday.

Andhra Pradesh and Chhattisgarh are believed to be the Maoists' strongest power bases.—AFP

 

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police going puh-lease......idiots, There is urgent need of reforming, mordernizing, arming and increasing size, infrastructure, increase pay hike , overall of the Indian Police system.

Sadly spilling their bloods will make them realise what useless they are. They are good at locking up andbeating the **** out of Indivduals.