16 Indian commandos killed in fresh election violence
Tens of thousands of armed police are deployed some states are wracked with violence by Maoist militants. – AFP pic, May 1, 2019
A SUSPECTED bomb attack by Maoist rebels killed 16 Indian elite commandos today, police said, the latest incident of election-time violence in a decades-long insurgency. “Maoists attacked a team of commandos travelling in a private vehicle to inspect an earlier attack. So far 16 men have died,” said an official at police headquarters in the western state of Maharashtra.
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