73 Indian Police Killed By Maoists
About 200 officers from the federal Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and a local police group were conducting a road inspection in Chhattisgarh state’s Dantewada district when the assault occurred, according to officials.
Dantewada’s top district administrator Reena Kangale told CNN that the attackers fired at the security officers and set off landmine explosions.
The attack and subsequent shootout lasted four hours, she said. Authorities launched rescue operations after the shootout ended, she added.
There was no immediate report of casualties on the Maoist side, Kangale added. The road inspection by the officers was being carried out ahead of a planned transportation of food to a camp of internally-displaced people, she explained.