Two policemen killed in Chhattisgarh landmine blast

June 13th, 2009 BOKARO - In a repeat of Friday's violence, maoists killed at least 11 policemen and injured eight others in an attack at Nawadih and Fushro areas in Jharkhand's Bokaro district on Saturday afternoon. According to Bokaro Superintendent of Police, L.

June 12th, 2009 BOKARO - Carrying out a second major strike in last three days, Maoists killed at least nine policemen and injured 10 others in an attack on a Public Sector Unit bank and a subsequent landmine blast in Jharkhand's Bokaro city on Friday. The Maoists, who are observing a Bandh in six States including Jharkhand, attempted to loot the State Bank of India (SBI) branch at Phusro after money was brought there from the Bermo branch of the bank, said Bokaro's Superintendent of Police, L.

June 10th, 2009 CHAIBASA - Eleven policemen were killed and three others injured when Maoists triggered off a landmine blast in Jharkhand's West Singhbhum District on Wednesday. According to police officials, the incident took place at around 8:30 a.m.

June 9th, 2009 RAIPUR - Nine Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) troopers were injured in a landmine blast triggered by Naxalites in Chhattisgarh's Bijapur district on Tuesday. "The blast occurred when the police truck also carrying ration goods for the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) was attacked by naxalites near the Bijapur valley which is 450 kilometers from the state headquarters," said Ankit Garg, Superintendent of Police.

May 6th, 2009 RAIPUR - As many as 11 people were killed and two others injured Wednesday in a powerful landmine blast planted by Maoists in Chhattisgarh's restive southern Bastar region, police said. The incident took place in Dantewada district's forested Injeram area, about 500 km south of capital Raipur.

May 6th, 2009 RAIPUR - A landmine blast in Sirguda village, in Chhattisgarh's Bastar region, claimed the lives of at least ten people on Wednesday. Among the dead were two CRPF personnel and four special police officers, police said.

April 24th, 2009 MUZAFFARPUR - Five policemen were killed when Maoists triggered a landmine blast on a vehicle carrying a police patrolling party in Bihar's Muzaffarpur District late on Thursday. Five policemen died on the spot while the vehicle driver was reported as seriously injured.

April 17th, 2009 RANCHI - A Border Security Force (BSF) trooper accompanying election officials was killed and three were injured when Maoist rebels triggered a landmine blast in Jharkhand Friday, police said. 'The landmine blast took place near Oriya village of Latehar district when security personnel were returning with EVMs (electronic voting machines) after polls,' Jharkhand poice spokesperson S.N.

April 16th, 2009 RANCHI - Six Border Security Force (BSF) personnel going for polling duty were killed in a landmine blast triggered by Maoist rebels in Latehar district of Jharkhand early Thursday, police said. 'Six BSF personnel were killed in a landmine blast in a jungle near Aara village.

April 16th, 2009 RAIPUR - Five polling officials were killed in a landmine blast in Chhattisgarh's Rajnandgaon district while a security personnel was shot dead in the Maoist stronghold of Dantewada as the state went to polls for its 11 parliamentary seats Thursday. Police said five members of a zonal reserve polling team members were killed in a landmine blast detonated by Maoists in Rajnandgaon district, 125 km from here.

April 12th, 2009 RAIPUR - In two separate incidents a para-military trooper of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) was killed in a landmine blast while three Maoist guerrillas were gunned down in an encounter with police Sunday in Chhattisgarh's restive Bastar region, officials said. Pawan Deo, deputy inspector general at the police headquarters here said that a CRPF trooper was killed and another District Force (DF) personnel injured in a landmine blast in a forested stretch of Bijapur district between Bhopalpattanam-Mander, some 500 km south of capital Raipur.

April 7th, 2009 RAIPUR - A constable was killed and five policemen were injured Tuesday when Maoist guerrillas attacked the superintendent of police's convoy and blew up one of the vehicles in Chhattisgarh's Bijapur district. The incident took place on a forested hilly stretch, some 450 km south of Raipur in Bastar region.

March 9th, 2009 RANCHI - Two people were injured in a landmine blast triggered by Maoist rebels in Bokaro district of Jharkhand Sunday, police said. A Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) team was patrolling when suspected rebels of Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) triggered a landmine on a culvert near Kanjgiro village of Bokaro district, around 180 km from here, Sunday afternoon.

February 15th, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - At least 12 security personnel were hurt Monday when their vehicle was blown up by a landmine blast triggered by Maoist rebels in Orissa’s Gajapati district, police said. The landmine went off when the vehicle carrying the personnel of the Special Operations Group (SOG) was passing next to a hill near Andheri village in Gajapati, some 470 km from here.

February 5th, 2009 RANCHI - Five police personnel were injured in a landmine blast by the Maoist rebels in Jharkhand Friday, a police officer said. When the five cops were returning to the Bundu police station, rebels belonging to the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) detonated a landmine near a bridge situated under the Bundu block, around 70 km from here.