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12 Policemen, 1 Civilian Killed in Maoist Attack in Chh’garh

Thirteen people, twelve policemen and a civilian, were killed and six others injured after 150 heavily armed Maoist rebels attacked a 41-member police force in Chhattisgarh, an official said on Monday.

The attack on the District Force (DF) search convoy took place late Sunday in hillside Risgaon village of Dhamtari district, about 130 km from state capital Raipur.

Girdhari Nayak, additional director general of police informed that the heavily armed rebels first triggered multiple blasts and then opened indiscriminate fire from hilltops on jawans. According to him, ten constables, one hawaldar, one special police officer (SPO) and a civilian, who was the driver of one of the vehicles, were killed.

He informed that local police authorities were not sure whether insurgents had walked away with arms of the deceased cops.

“It’s the first attack of insurgents in Dhamtari district. The jawans belonging to Kanker DF were travelling in three vehicles,” said Pawan Deo, deputy inspector general (Maoist operations) at the police headquarters.

A helicopter sent by the state government on Monday morning brought back three seriously injured policemen who have been admitted to the Ramkrishna Care Hospital here.

The search squad was sent to the area after intelligence inputs suggested that dozens of Maoists were to meet there. The information proved to be a trap.

Chief Minister Raman Singh in a statement has termed the killings a “cowardice act” of guerrillas and said that “those who believe in democracy as well as human rights organisations must condemn the brutal act”.

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