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Seven CRPF jawans were killed on Saturday when Naxals blew up a bullet-proof vehicle in Bijapur district of Chhhattisgarh, the first major attack after the Dantewada ambush which left 76 security men dead a month ago.
The Maoists struck again in Chhattisgarh. At least eight CRPF jawans were killed in a landmine blast in Bijapur, Chhattisgarh. The naxals targeted the CRPF vehicle.
At least six paramilitary troopers were killed and 10 injured Saturday when Maoist rebels blew up their vehicle in India's central Chhattisgarh state, news reports said.
In a chilling reminder of Naxal attack on security personnel in Chhattisgarh's Dantewada district recently, about six to ten Central Reserve Police Force personnel have been killed and 13 others injured in a landmine blast in Chhattisgarh's Bijapur area here on Saturday evening.
Railway protection force intercepted a consignment of 80 ‘Superpower 90' gelatin sticks and 73 detonators from Nagpur railway station on Saturday afternoon. The accused Pannalal Ramteke, 60, was arrested and handed over to the government railway police. Ramteke was arrested when he was waiting to board a train. Several agencies including the ATS rushed to interrogate Ramteke, who was ferrying the consignment to Amgaon in Gondia – a Naxal-affected district.
Superintendent of Police Veenu Bansal, who headed the operation to nab Beck this week, said on Friday that the naxal leader was in the state as 'he wanted to lie low'. Bansal said that Beck was also working in one of the industrial units in Goa and was hiding here for last one and half month before state police zeroed in on him.