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Naxals strike police posts in Orissa, 15 killed
BIG LOOT: Around 400 armed Naxals, including women cadres, looted
sophisticated arms and ammunitions.
*New Delhi:* Fifteen people were killed and at least five injured after
Naxals launched major offensives at Nayagarh and Daspalla in Orissa on
Friday and looted sophisticated arms and ammunition from three trucks.
The first attack was on the Nayagarh Police Training School and the district
armoury. Police say the attack was carried out by a group of around 400
Naxals, including women cadres, equipped with bombs and firearms.
Within a few minutes, another attack was launched at a police station in
Daspalla town.
Fourteen police personnel and one civilian were killed in the attack. There
are no reports of any casualties on the Naxal side. The injured policemen
have been taken to the SCG hospital in Cuttack.
"Around 400-500 Naxal cadres attacked the place around 10.30 last night. The
offensive went on for about two hours," IG Central Range SK Upadhyay told
CNN-IBN.
"Combing operations are on and inventory is being checked. Naxals took all
the weapons in these facilities," Upadhyay added.
According to some reports 50-60 armed Naxals have also surrounded a village
called Janegoda near FourGhatsila in East Singhbhum district of Jharkhand.
The offensive is believed to be a retaliatory attack targeted towards the
Nagrik Suraksha Samiti people there who helped the security forces kill
seven of their cadres earlier on Thursday.
Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik is in Nayagarh to take stock of the situation.
Patnaik has sought three units of Greyhound commandos from the Centre for
the search operations. He also announced Rs 10 lakh each to the families of
the 14 police personnel killed in the attack.
Orissa assembly was adjourned after an uproar on the incident. The state
opposition has demanded CM's resignation.
Union Defence Minister A K Antony has offered the use of two Indian Air
Force helicopters to search for the Naxalites, who are believed to be hiding
in the forests near the area, which is just an hours drive from state
capital Bhubaneswar.
Just a day earlier CNN-IBN had carried an exclusive interview with CPI
(Maoist) Politburo Comrade Sonu where he had said that the Naxals were
involved in the Nandigram violence in West Bengal.
"The Indian Prime Minister says Naxalites are the main threat to internal
security. We know the State is at us. So we have adopted guerrilla tactics,"
Comrade Sonu had said.
"With the common man we will defeat the state. We will die for the people,
we will work for the people. We the servants of the people."
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