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Maoists Strike in Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and Odisha

Maoists have killed two persons and injured two others in an attack on a police station and the house of a Congress leader in Dantewada district of Chhattisgarh, said media reports.

Armed rebels struck at the Kuakonda police station in the district in the wee hours, drawing retaliation from the police personnel, reports said.

Police said that six Maoists were killed in retaliation but their bodies were still to be recovered, said reports.

A police spokesman said that the rebels also attacked the house of Congress leader Avdesh Gautam in nearby Nakulnar village and five security personnel deployed at Gautam’s house retaliated, reports said.

In the attack, leader’s two relatives were killed and two others injured, one of them his son and a security personnel, said reports.

In Odisha, heavily-armed Maoists attacked a police station and a forest office setting them on fire and abducted a policeman in Keonjhar district, reports said.

According to reports, nearly 80 Maoists, armed with automatic weapons, stormed into Daitari town and targeted the police station and the nearby forest office opening indiscriminate fire.

The seven policemen, who were on duty at the police station at the time of the incident, retaliated triggering a brief exchange of fire with the Maoists, after which the badly outnumbered men in uniform fled, said reports.

Reports said that Assistant Sub Inspector Umesh Chandra Marandi has gone missing after the incident and is feared to have been abducted by the Naxals.

In Jharkhand, rebels blasted a railway station and tracks on second day of their two-day strike called against the killing of one of their top leader, reports said.

“In two separate incidents, Maoist rebels blasted the building of Hehegara railway station and the railway tracks near Nichitpur halt,” Amrendra Das, Public Relation Officer (PRO) of Dhanbad railway division, was quoted as saying by IANS.

He said that over a dozen trains were stranded at different places because of the blasts and that the repair work is underway to restore the rail traffic, said reports.

(Based on internet reports)

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