Garhwa/Ranchi: In yet another gruesome operation, Maoists on Saturday triggered a landmine blast in which 13 policemen were killed near Garhwa district’s Lalmatia village, about 250km from Ranchi, on Jharkhand’ border with Chhattisgarh.
This is the second big attack since last November’s killing of Maoist ideologue and chief spokesman Kishenji in Bengal’s Jangalmahal area. Eleven security personnel were killed in a blast that targeted the cavalcade of Independent Lok Sabha MP Inder Singh Namdhari in Latehar in December.
The Lalmatia blast, that hit an anti-landmine vehicle carrying the cops around 11.15am, was so powerful that the impact threw the armoured vehicle several feet into the air and it was badly mangled as it crashed back on the ground. The sound of explosion echoed as far as Bhandaria village,4km away.Asif to prove again that they had a free run of the place, Maoist guerillas kept local newsmen in captivity for two hours after the blast and even held a press conference.
All the combatants involved in Saturday’s attack came without their faces covered, as they usually do during an operation. Eyewitnesses said these men, numbering 30 to 40, were all in their 20s and wore military fatigues. They said police should stop Operation Green Hunt, the multi-force operation against Naxals in Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, West Bengal, Bihar and Orissa. The Maoists also demanded an end to what they called assassinations of “revolutionary leaders” in fake encounters. The guerillas took away all the arms and ammunition the cops were carrying.
The policemen were escorting Bhandaria BDO Basu Deo Prasad to Badgarh where villagers had put up a blockade since early morning in protest against the construction of a primary health centre in a market. FORCES IN CROSS HAIRS
Jan 5, 2012 | 3 Orissa police constables killed in landmine blast in Kandhamal
Dec 3, 2011 | 11 securitymen killed in Jharkhand’s Latehar in blast targeted at I S Namdhari, an Independent MP
Feb 15, 2010 | 24 Eastern Frontier Rifles men killed as Maoists attack their camp in Silda, West Bengal
April 4, 2010 | 11 men of Special Operation Group killed and 8 injured in landmine blast in Orissa’s Koraput
April 6, 2010 | 75 CRPF men and a state policeman killed in Maoist attack in Chhattisgarh’s Dantewada June 29, 2010 | 27 CRPF men, including an assistant commandant, killed in a Maoist ambush in Chhattisgarh’s Narayanpur.
This is the second big attack since last November’s killing of Maoist ideologue and chief spokesman Kishenji in Bengal’s Jangalmahal area. Eleven security personnel were killed in a blast that targeted the cavalcade of Independent Lok Sabha MP Inder Singh Namdhari in Latehar in December.
The Lalmatia blast, that hit an anti-landmine vehicle carrying the cops around 11.15am, was so powerful that the impact threw the armoured vehicle several feet into the air and it was badly mangled as it crashed back on the ground. The sound of explosion echoed as far as Bhandaria village,4km away.Asif to prove again that they had a free run of the place, Maoist guerillas kept local newsmen in captivity for two hours after the blast and even held a press conference.
All the combatants involved in Saturday’s attack came without their faces covered, as they usually do during an operation. Eyewitnesses said these men, numbering 30 to 40, were all in their 20s and wore military fatigues. They said police should stop Operation Green Hunt, the multi-force operation against Naxals in Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, West Bengal, Bihar and Orissa. The Maoists also demanded an end to what they called assassinations of “revolutionary leaders” in fake encounters. The guerillas took away all the arms and ammunition the cops were carrying.
The policemen were escorting Bhandaria BDO Basu Deo Prasad to Badgarh where villagers had put up a blockade since early morning in protest against the construction of a primary health centre in a market. FORCES IN CROSS HAIRS
Jan 5, 2012 | 3 Orissa police constables killed in landmine blast in Kandhamal
Dec 3, 2011 | 11 securitymen killed in Jharkhand’s Latehar in blast targeted at I S Namdhari, an Independent MP
Feb 15, 2010 | 24 Eastern Frontier Rifles men killed as Maoists attack their camp in Silda, West Bengal
April 4, 2010 | 11 men of Special Operation Group killed and 8 injured in landmine blast in Orissa’s Koraput
April 6, 2010 | 75 CRPF men and a state policeman killed in Maoist attack in Chhattisgarh’s Dantewada June 29, 2010 | 27 CRPF men, including an assistant commandant, killed in a Maoist ambush in Chhattisgarh’s Narayanpur.
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