Naxal attack: At least 10 police personnel and a driver had been killed in an IED blast triggered by Naxalites in Chhattisgarh’s Dantewada district on Wednesday, officers mentioned. The incident occurred below Aranpur police station limits when a workforce of the state police’s District Reserve Guard (DRG) was returning after an anti-Naxalite operation, a senior official mentioned. The space is situated round 450 km from state capital Raipur. Naxalites blew up the mini-goods van in which the safety personnel had been travelling by utilizing an Improvised Explosive Device (IED), police sources mentioned. The Centre has assured all of the potential assist to CM Bhupesh Baghel’s authorities in the state. Meanwhile, Union Home Minister Amit Shah has additionally spoke to the chief minister. Making an announcement on the matter, CM Bhupesh Baghel mentioned that it is very saddening. My condolences to the bereaved households. This battle is in its last stage. Naxals will not be spared.
Naxalites have additionally been an issue for governments for many years as some areas in states like Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, and Bihar have remained affected on account of their cowardly acts. While the federal government has mentioned that they are going to take robust motion towards the Naxalites, this is a have a look at some information on related assaults which have taken place in the nation in the previous 5 years.
2023
- 5 February: Three armed Maoists hacked Chhattisgarh BJP chief Neelkanth Kakkem to death. He had reportedly been receiving death threats.
- 11 February: In a second attack inside per week in the state of Chhattisgarh, Deputy Chief of BJP of Naraynpura district was shot lifeless exterior his residence by two assailants suspected to be Maoists.
- 3 April: Five members of the CPI (Maoist) had been killed in Chatra, Jharkhand. The Bihar-Jharkhand regional committee of CPI (Maoist) requires a bandh in hand-written posters in the 2 states on April 14 and 15 to protest the murders of their members.
2022
- 4 January: CPI (Maoist) attacked Gurucharan Nayak, the previous BJP MLA of Manoharpur, in West Singhbhum district of Jharkhand. Nayak escaped however Maoists slit the throat of his two bodyguards, snachted their AK:47 rifles and fled. Two bodyguards died in the incident.
- 2 September: Two cadres of CPI (Maoist) killed in an encounter by safety forces in Saraikela Kharsawan district of Jharkhand.
- 26 November: 4 naxals, together with two girls cadres, had been killed by safety personnel in Bastar division of Bijapur district, Chhattisgarh. Weapons and explosives had been additionally seized, akin to .303 and .315 rifles, and a musket.
2021
- 3 April: 22 troopers together with 14 Chhattisgarh policemen and seven jawans of the CRPF, together with 6 members of its elite CoBRA unit, had been killed in a Maoist ambush on the border of Bijapur and Sukma districts in southern Chhattisgarh. One CRPF jawan was held captive by the Maoists.
- 23 March: 5 safety personnel had been killed when a bus carrying over 20 safety personnel was attacked by Naxals utilizing an IED in Narayanpur district of Chhattisgarh. At least 13 safety personnel had been injured in the attack.
- 3 April: During a raid on a Maoist hideout in the forests of Bijapur district in Chhattisgarh state, 30 safety personnel had been killed, and at the least 31 others had been wounded, in an hours-long gun battle with Naxal rebels, who fought towards the safety forces with automated weapons and grenades. The physique of one insurgent was discovered, and at the least 20 safety personnel had been reported lacking.
- 13 November: 26 naxals had been killed in an encounter with the Maharashtra police on the Mardintola forest close to Korchi in Gadchiroli district, Chhattisgarh border. Milind Teltumbde, a member of the CPI (Maoist) central committee, was amongst these lifeless.
2020
- 8 February: 2 Cobra Commandos had been killed in an attack by Naxals in Bijapur district of Chhattisgarh.
- 21 March: 17 safety personnel of Chhattisgarh Police had been killed in a Maoist ambush in Sukma district’s Elmaguda forest, together with 12 from the District Reserve Guards and 5 others from Special Task Force throughout a safety operation launched towards Maoists alongside the CRPF. 15 personnel had been wounded and 16 weapons stolen.
- 21 July: In an act that was seen as a departure from the norm, Dantewada villagers filed police complaints towards 7 identified Naxals for a brutal assault on villagers.
- 20 August: Another FIR was lodged over an incident that had occurred in Chikpal a day earlier. It is alleged 10 villagers, together with a 12-year-old woman, had been assaulted by Maoists. Their medical reviews mentioned they’d bruises on their backs and above thighs.
- 28 November: 1 Cobra Commando was killed and 9 had been injured in an IED attack by Naxals in Sukma.
2019
- 8 March: 1 Naxal chief was killed in an encounter with the Kerala police at a Wayanad resort.[156]
- 1 May: 16 policemen, together with a driver, had been killed in an IED blast carried out by Naxalite’s in Gadchiroli, Maharashtra. Naxals focused an anti-Naxal operations workforce.
- 14 June: Maoist killed 5 police personnel in weekly market in Saraikela Kharsawan district, Jharkhand.[158]
- 28 October: Kerala Police’s elite commando workforce “Thunderbolt” gunned down 3 maoists in an encounter in the Attappadi hills area of Palakkad. One remaining member of the maoists group was killed a day later when the police workforce went to examine the encounter web site, following an attack on the workforce.
- 23 November: Naxals opened hearth on a patrol van killing an ASI and three residence guard Jawans in Latehar, Jharkhand.
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