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No impact of Naxal bandh in Maha, one Maoist killed: Patil

A woman Maoist cadre was killed in police firing in Maharashtra today, Home Minister R R Patil said while asserting that there was no impact of the bandh called by Naxalites in the state.

Updated on: Jul 8, 2010, 02:40:16 IST
PTI | By , Mumbai
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A woman Maoist cadre was killed in police firing in Maharashtra today, Home Minister R R Patil said while asserting that there was no impact of the bandh called by Naxalites in the state.

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"Only tehsils like Dhanora in Gadchiroli witnessed some support for the bandh. We had made fool-proof arrangements to tackle it," Patil told PTI here tonight.

A woman Naxalite was killed in police firing in Gadchiroli district, Patil said.

Naxals have called a two day-bandh in the 'red corridor' to protest their top leader Azad's killing in Adilabad in Andhra Pradesh.

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