Maoists open fire near CRPF camps in Chhattisgarh
April 21st, 2010 - 1:35 am ICT by IANSRaipur, April 21 (IANS) Maoist guerrillas opened fire near at least five Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) camps in Chhattisgarh’s Dantewada district simultaneously Tuesday night, a police officer said.
“Armed Maoists backed by Sangham (village-level cadres) members fired shots in areas near five CRPF camps. It seems the firing was intended to provoke the troopers,” District Superintendent of Police (Dantewada) Amresh Mishra told IANS over telephone.
He said the firing was reported from the paramilitary CRPF camps located in Chintagufa, Errabore, Pollampalli, Bhejji and Kankerlanka - all in Dantewada district. Mishra, however, descibed it as “a very minor incident” and said that no casualties had been reported.
Maoists had killed 75 CRPF troopers and a Chhattisgarh policeman in Dantewada April 6 in the worst ever attack on security forces.
Chhattisgarh’s Bastar region, made up of Dantewada, Bastar, Bijapur, Narayanpur and Kanker districts, is spread over 40,000 sq km and has been a Maoist stronghold since the late 1980s.
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