Four killed in Gadchiroli (Lead)
October 8th, 2010 - 10:31 pm ICT by IANSGadchiroli (Maharashtra), Oct 8 (IANS) Four people, including two children, were killed and ten students injured when splinters of grenades lobbed by the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) at Maoists landed in a school near a border town here, police said here Friday.
The dead included a woman cook and a caretaker.
The incident took place Friday noon in the far-flung Sawargaon village near Dhanora town bordering Maharashtra and Chattisgarh.
“Sawargaon (Maharashtra) is situated only three km away from Kahoka village (Chhattisgarh) where a camp of ITBP is located,” Gadchiroli Deputy Superintendent of Police V.C. Chaple told IANS.
“The ITBP soldiers were firing at Maoists hiding in Sawargaon. They threw grenades at the militants, the splinters of which hit an ashram school nearby,” Chaple said.
The two kids killed were between five and seven years of age.
“Ten students were hurt. They were shifted to government hospital,” Chaple said.
“The condition of nine is stable, while one is critical and has been shifted to a Nagpur hospital,” he added.
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