ambushed
a security patrol killing 16 people including 11 of the CRPF in a
daring daytime attack in the worst-hit Sukma district of Chhattisgarh, a
gory reminder of the 2010 Dantewada massacre in which 76 CRPF personnel
were gunned down in the same area.
The Naxals, who were 200 in number, walked away with the arms and ammunition of the slain policemen after the encounter that lasted nearly three hours. The attack at a road construction site came exactly a month before the Lok Sabha elections in Chattisgarh.
They struck at 'Jeerum Nullah', 400 km from Raipur, at around 1015 am when a contingent of 48 joint security forces personnel was trapped and struck by heavy fire and landmine blasts while it was out for an operational task in the jungles of Tongapal, close to the Dantewada and 'Jeerum Ghati' axis, notorious for Naxal violence.
The Naxals, who were 200 in number, walked away with the arms and ammunition of the slain policemen after the encounter that lasted nearly three hours. The attack at a road construction site came exactly a month before the Lok Sabha elections in Chattisgarh.
They struck at 'Jeerum Nullah', 400 km from Raipur, at around 1015 am when a contingent of 48 joint security forces personnel was trapped and struck by heavy fire and landmine blasts while it was out for an operational task in the jungles of Tongapal, close to the Dantewada and 'Jeerum Ghati' axis, notorious for Naxal violence.
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