Six women Maoists held for Chhattisgarh ambush

Sep 08, 2010 |

IANS

Raipur

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Seven Maoist guerrillas, including six women, were arrested in Chhattisgarh on Wednesday for killing five security personnel in an ambush last month, the police said.

The seven, amongst the dozens of Maoists wanted for the August 29 killing of five security personnel in Kanker, were arrested in a forest in the district that is part of the 40,000 sq km Bastar region along with Dantewada, Bijapur, Bastar and Narayanpur districts.

"We had been tracking the Maoists for several days and finally they were trapped today. Six of the seven Maoists apprehended were females and had been involved in an ambush on a joint patrolling party in Kanker district’s Bhuski village on August 29, in which five jawans were martyred," Ajay Yadav, Kanker district superintendent of police, told IANS on the phone.

About 100 Maoists had ambushed a police patrolling party drawn from the Border Security Force (BSF), district force (DF) and special police officers (SPOs) in Bhuski village in Kanker district, 250 km from here. Amongst the five killed were three BSF troopers.

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