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| Naxalites massacre policemen |
| Bodies of the Chhattisgarh Armed Force personnel and tribal youth killed in an attack by naxalites lying at the Ranipotili police base camp
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| INDIA
, 16-March-2007
3:51:44 AM |
| Fifty-four persons, including 15 personnel of the Chhattisgarh Armed Force, were killed in an offensive by 300 to 350 CPI (Maoist) cadres on a police base camp in the Bastar region in the early hours of Thursday.
The remaining victims were tribal youths of the Salva Judum, designated as Special Police Officers (SPOs) and roped in to combat the naxalite menace. Eleven persons were injured.
The condition of four persons is said to be serious. The naxalites took away 13 self-loading rifles, three AK-47 rifles, nine .303 rifles and a two-inch mortar.
According to reports, only 11 of the 79 police personnel and SPOs at the camp in a forested area, at Ranipotili village of Bijapur district, managed to escape. The assailants used petrol bombs, detonators and rocket launchers. Half the police personnel were killed in their sleep; others were shot while trying to flee from the smoke-filled premises.
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