Five naxals held in Dantewada district of Chhattisgarh Five naxals including three girls were held from separate places in Chhattisgarh's insurgency-hit Dantewada district on Friday, the police said
At the time of the incident, the diesel-laden tanker was engaged in rail track laying work in Rowghat area.
Dadu Singh Parotiya (50) was attacked by the ultras outside his house at village Konde under Durgkondal police station limits on Tuesday night, Kanker Superintendent of Police K L Dhruv told PTI.
Three Naxals were killed in an encounter with security forces in a forest area of Bihar's Gaya district on Thursday, officials said.
The encounter broke out early morning in the forest of Sendbahra village under Mechka police station limits when security forces were out on an anti-Naxal operation, Director General of Police (DGP) D M Awasthi told reporters.
A team of the police's District Reserve Guard was out on an anti-Naxal operation when the encounter broke out.
Naxals shot dead a man in Chhattisgarh's Kanker district on suspicion that he gave his land to police for setting up their camp, an official said on Tuesday.
The patrolling team, comprising personnel from the DRG and the Special Task Force, was cordoning off a forest at a hill near Gogunda, when the ultras triggered the IED blast, he said.
One INSAS rifle and one 12 Bore weapon with ammunition and other incriminating materials recovered.
15 commandos and a driver of the bus carrying them were killed when Naxals triggered an IED blast in Maharashtra's Gadchiroli district.
"A group of Maoists gathered around 3.30 am at Dadapur where the construction of a national highway has been going on since the last few months," Shailesh Balkawade, Superintendent of Police, Gadchiroli said.
BJP MLA Bheema Mandavi has been killed in the attack, ANI quoted P Sundar Raj, DIG-Anti-Naxal Ops as saying.
The gunfight was reported from Kanker district of the state.
Two-AK 47s, one 303 rifle and two pistols were recovered from the killed Naxals.
Over 150 Left wing extremists clashed with troopers of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and the District Reserve Group of the Chhattisgarh Police, an official said.
Maoists frequently use IEDs or home-made bombs to target security personnel in Chhattisgarh.
Questioning the loot of camera by naxals, SP said they looted the camera as it had recorded evidence of what happened in the first few minutes of targeted media ambush.
80 of the 212 naxals are those against whom rewards were already announced earlier, but they have been included in the present list since two years' limit has come to an end.
"Atalji (then prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee) founded the state and Raman Singh developed it," he said.
Some of the 'Maoist leaders' arrested by the Pune Police in a country-wide crackdown earlier this week were part of these groups which acted as 'front face' of the rebels.
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