Source: The Sangai Express / PTI
Raipur, July 12 2009:
Twenty-six police personnel, including a Superintendent of Police, were today killed in two separate attacks by Maoists in Rajnandgaon district of Chhattisgarh.
The State police said that 24 of its men, including SP V K Choubey, were killed when Maoists ambushed a party led by him while it was on the way to a police camp at Madanwada where the militants had this morning killed two of its personnel.
IG Durg Range Mukesh Gupta said the bodies of Choubey and 23 other policemen were being brought to Manpur police station, about 100 kms from the State capital, under which the incidents took place.
DIG (Naxal) Pawan Dev said Choubey's party was targeted by the ultras in Khoregaon area.
Additional contingents have been rushed to the area and a combing operation has been launched, he said.