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| Maoist attack on train in India kills three policemen | ||
| 2013-12-01 | ||
The guerrillas fired at the policemen as the train passed through a tunnel on its way to state capital Patna from the town of Sahebganj in Munger district, senior police officer S.K. Bhardwaj said. “They fired at the railway policemen in the train. Three of our men have died and another has been seriously injured,” Bhardwaj said. The guerrillas On Wednesday, Maoist insurgents ambushed a security patrol and killed four troopers in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh. The Maoists have grown from a rag-tag band of ideologues into a potent insurgent force, creating a so-called “Red Corridor” that stretches throughout central and eastern India. They demand land and jobs for the poor, and want to establish a communist society by toppling what they call India’s “semi-colonial, semi-feudal” form of rule.
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| Posted by: Squinty 2013-12-01 15:09 |