New Delhi: Suspected naxals targeted a police party near the Chhattisgarh-Orissa border late on Monday night, killing nine policemen, including the Additional Superintendent of Chhattisgarh's Gariabandh district. Their bodies have been recovered and a hunt is on for a missing policeman.
The incident took place in Amamora village in Mahasamad district of Chattisgarh.
The police were conducting a search operation in the village when they were ambushed.
Senior police officials today said that a 10-member police team led by ASP Rajesh Pawar was sent to Amamora and Sonabed jungle yesterday following reports of Maoist movement in the area.
When the police team was returning last evening, their vehicle broke down following which they boarded a tractor. The Maoists then triggered a landmine blast in which the tractor was blown up. Nine policemen were killed in the attack, the officials said.
After contact with the team was lost, the Chhattisgarh Police rushed a big team of CRPF and STF to the area.
As the site of the attack was closer to Orissa, police in the neighbouring state was alerted and requested to send a team to the spot.
A police team was sent on foot to the attack site situated in thick jungles. The police teams, which reached the spot, informed about the attack.
The bodies of the policemen killed in the attack are being brought to Gariabandh.
(With additional information from PTI)
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