Suspected Maoists attack former MP, three security men killed

October 12th, 2009 NAGPUR - Suspected Maoists fired a few rounds shortly before polling began early Tuesday in Maharashtra's Gadchiroli district, where the rebels had killed 17 policemen last week, a senior police officer said. "At around 6.30 a.m., before polling started, a few rounds of gunfire were heard in Kasanpur village of Aheri assembly constituency," Gadchiroli Superintendent of Police S.

October 10th, 2009 NAGPUR - The central government has sent 20 additional companies of the paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) to hunt down the Maoists responsible for the massacre of 17 policemen in Maharashtra's Gadchiroli district Thursday, a police officer said Saturday. "They are expected to reach here later this (Saturday) evening and will help us to flush out the Maoists who may have spread out in the region," Gadchiroli Superintendent of Police S.

October 8th, 2009 NAGPUR - In a major attack days before the assembly polls, Maoist guerrillas Thursday ambushed a police patrol and gunned down at least 17 policemen in a jungle stretch of Maharashtra's Gadchiroli district. Suspected Maoists also slit the throat of a police informer and dumped his body in the same district, police said.

September 26th, 2009 RAIPUR - In a daring attack, suspected Maoists in Chhattisgarh Saturday shot two sons of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and Bastar Lok Sabha MP Baliram Kashyap, killing one of them, police said. "Maoists fired several rounds at Kashyap's sons, Dinesh and Tansen, when they were at a Mahashthami Durga Puja celebration in Bastar district," a top police official told IANS.

September 26th, 2009 RAIPUR - In a daring attack, suspected Maoists in Chhattisgarh Saturday opened fire on Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and Bastar Lok Sabha MP Baliram Kashyap' sons Dinesh and Tansen, police said. "Maoists fired several rounds at Kashyap's sons when they were at a Mahashthami Durga Puja celebration in Bastar district," a top police official told IANS.

September 22nd, 2009 ISLAMABAD - At least 34 suspected militants have died in clashes in Pakistan's South and North Waziristan while the Taliban claim to have killed 45 security personnel, media reports said Tuesday. Gunship helicopters pounded militant hideouts in South Waziristan, killing at least 26 suspected militants while injuring several others, Dawn reported Tuesday.

September 13th, 2009 KOLKATA - One man was shot dead and another injured by suspected Maoist rebels Sunday evening in West Bengal's trouble-hit Binpur region, police said. A group of 15 people shot Nazrul Hassan, 28, at Andharia Bazar in Maoist-affected West Midnapore district, police said.

September 6th, 2009 RANCHI - At least five people have been killed by naxals at Pundigiri village, about 60 kms from Ranchi this morning. According to police, activists of banned group Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) entered Pundigiri village in the Tamar block, abducted five villagers and took them to a forest where they were shot dead.

September 2nd, 2009 PATNA - Suspected Maoist guerrillas in Bihar have kidnapped six security guards working for a private construction company that had not met their extortion demand, police here said Wednesday. The incident took place late Tuesday when a group of armed guerrillas attacked the office of Subhash Projects & Marketing Ltd (SPML), a private road construction firm in Jamui district.

September 2nd, 2009 KOLKATA - Two Maoists were killed in a gun battle with security forces in West Bengal's West Midnapore district, police said Wednesday. The shooting took place when a joint patrol of central paramilitary forces and the state police were marching in the forest area of Kadashol.

August 15th, 2009 KOLKATA - A Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) activist, Ramakrishna Duley, was killed Saturday by suspected Maoist rebels at Saluka village in West Bengal's Bankura district, police said. The 50-year-old Duley died in a hospital after he was fired upon by the ultras and a bullet hit him in the neck, said Inspector General of Police (Law and Order) Surajit Kar Purakayastha.

July 29th, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - Suspected Maoists Wednesday killed two policemen in Orissa's Keonjhar district, police said. The bodies of assistant sub-inspector of police Muralidhar Bastia and home guard Hadibandhu Mahanta were found at about 7 p.m.

July 24th, 2009 KOLKATA - A police official was abducted by a group of suspected Maoists Friday evening in the troubled Lalgarh region of West Bengal, following which a gun battle ensued between the rebels and security personnel, police said. "We came to know that a policeman was abducted by a group of Maoists in Lalgarh-Ramgarh region.

July 22nd, 2009 KOLKATA - A Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) activist was shot dead Wednesday by suspected Maoists in West Bengal's Belpahari region, police said. "Phagu Baskey was working in the fields this (Wednesday) morning near Belpahari area in West Midnapore district when a group of Maoist rebels killed him," police superintendent M.K Verma told IANS.

July 19th, 2009 RAIPUR - Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh Sunday rejected reports that spurt in Maoist violence in the state was basically due to failure of intelligence network. Singh, who travelled Sunday to the site in Rajnandgaon district where Maoists killed 29 state policemen in an ambush July 12, said police had prior information of Maoists' possible attack in the district but police suffered casualties as it was a "well coordinated flash attack" of the rebels.