73 Indian security personnel killed in rebel's ambush
16:12, 6 April 2010
NEW DELHI. April 6. KAZINFORM At least 73 Indian security personnel were killed in an early morning ambush by left-wing rebels in the central state of Chhattisgarh Tuesday, a senior police official said; Kazinform refers to Xinhua.
"The Naxlites attacked a 120-member joint team of central and state security forces who have been camping in interiors of Tarmetla jungles for the last three days as part of a combing operation," Dantewada police chief Amresh Mishra told the media.
"The rebels also blew up a vehicle carrying security forces personnel of the paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force in the early hours near Chintalnar-Tarmetla village in the district," the police chief said.
Earlier, CNN-IBN reported that about 100 Indian security people were surprisingly attacked by about 1,000 guerrillas in Dantewada district of the eastern state of Chattisgarh at about 6 a.m; Kazinform cites Xinhua.
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