Chhattisgarh, November 29
Twelve people, including 10 Mizoram Armed Force personnel and a 12-year-old boy, died after the Maoists blew up a jeep by triggering a landmine at Murliguda village here today, the police said.
Head constables Chalyan, Ralloman Tauna, constables Jaiming Thaga, Gyano Pauka, V. K. Kalulyang, T. K. Jena, Baglal Thoya, Lallatangjaba Puiya, Lalatlai Puiya, cook Aalalhua and driver Zakir Khan were killed.
“The personnel were en route to Banda post from Konta in a private jeep that was blown up by the rebels,” said Dantewada superintendent of police Rahul Sharma. After the attack, the ultras took away seven AK-47 assault rifles and a carbine. An AK-47 was recovered from the spot.
Security personnel collected dismembered bodies. The blast was
so powerful that body parts were scattered over a radius of about 200 metres.
Meanwhile, the police said paramilitary forces had been pressed into the service for combing the entire area to flush out the extremists.
The Communist Party of India (Maoist) cadres stepped up violence in Bastar since June 2005, after the local tribals launched Salwa Judum to generate awareness among the masses against insurgent violence and isolation of the Maoists. However, the Naxals retaliated by unleashing violence against those participating in the Salwa Judum rallies and public meetings.
More than 700 people, including several security personnel, were killed in the rebel violence over the past two years while nearly 60,000 people abandoned their native villages and sheltered in relief camps set-up by the state government in Bastar.
— UNI
