Naxalites strike terror in Ch'garh, 50 cops killed

13 others are hurt in the incident, reports E Kaiser.

At least fifty security personnel were feared killed and as many as 13 others were injured when Naxalites attacked a police outpost located in Bijapur district of Chhattisgarh during the wee hours of Thursday. The armed Maoists fled after looting weapons.

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According to the police sources, the Naxals came in large numbers and hurled grenades and petrol bombs besides opening indiscriminate fire on the security forces in the base camp at around 2 am.

“There were around eighty security personnel in the Rani Bodli base camp including 26 Chhattisgarh Armed Forces personnel and 55 Special Police Officers (SPOs) at the time of attack,” the source stated.

The security personnel retaliated the Naxal attack, resulting in the death of nearly six of the extremists, a senior police official said.

Speaking to Hindustan Times, the state's home minister, Ram Vichar Netam, expressed fear that the casualty figures could be high. Senior police officials and paramilitary forces rushed to the spot following the massacre.

Dantewada District Collector KR Pisda informed that around fifty dead bodies were recovered but they were yet to be identified.