10 killed as Maoists ambush police party
Friday August 19, 2011 11:20:29 PM,
IANS
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Raipur:
Nine policemen and a civilian were killed as Maoist
rebels Friday ambushed a police party in Chhattisgarh, India's
worst left-wing insurgency-affected state, police said.
"There is a massive attack on dozens of policemen in the jungles
of Bijapur district. We are struggling to take reinforcements to
the attack site since the area is heavily mined and densely
forested," Bijapur police chief, R.N. Das, told IANS over the
phone.
The attack site, some 500 km south of Raipur, is in the restive
Bastar region.
The attack took place in the evening when dozens of policemen were
returning from a jungle terrain on foot and in a tractor. The
vehicle was blown to smithereens in a blast.
A police officer based in Bijapur's Bhopalpatnam area where the
attack took place, said that the Maoists trapped policemen in "a
well-planned and well-executed ambush".
"The policemen were boxed-in from all sides by heavily armed
militants," the officer told IANS over phone.
Some of the policemen were carrying their rations in a tractor
while a few of them who were unarmed and in plain clothes were
returning after being granted leave, he said.
"We are trying to get the exact situation as reinforcement is
finding hard to reach to the site," Additional Director General of
Police (Maoist Operations) Ramnivas told reporters in Raipur.
"There were two encounters and our force handled the first one
effectively but in the second battle they got ambushed," he said.
Meanwhile, Chief Minister Raman Singh held an emergency meet here
with the state police chief Anil Navaney and Chief Secretary P.
Joy Oommen to discuss how to rush support to a few policemen
reportedly critically injured in the ambush and who were lying in
a pools of blood at the attack site.
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