ஒரிஸ்ஸாவில் மாவோயிஸ்டுகள் கொலைவெறி: 14 பேர் பலி

ஒரிஸ்ஸாவில் திட்டமிட்டு 100 கம்யூனிஸ பயங்கர்வாதிகள் துப்பாக்கி குண்டுகளுடன் போலீஸ் நிலையங்களை தாக்கி அங்கிருந்த போலீஸாரையும் பொதுமக்களையும் கொன்று அங்கிருந்த ஆயுதங்களை எடுத்துச்சென்றுள்ளனர்

Maoists kill 14 in meticulously planned attack in Orissa
Nayagarh (Orissa) (PTI): Maoists killed 14 people, including 13 policemen, and took away a huge quantity of arms and ammunition in a meticulously planned attack on a police station, police training school and armoury here in Nayagarh district late Friday night.

A group of nearly 100 maoists, including women cadre armed with guns and bombs launched the attack at 11:00 pm last night, the first attack in coastal Orissa a mere 90 km from the state capital, and a rerun of the March 2006 attack on a sub-jail in Udaygiri in Gajapati district and looting of an armoury in Koraput town earlier in February 2004.

Nayagarh Superintendent of Police Rajesh Kumar said while 10 policemen were were shot dead by the maoists at the police training school, a civilian died after being caught in the crossfire at the Daspalla police station, 30 km away.

The two other police casualties occurred when the maoists, retreating after attacking the Mahipur police outpost shot them dead, the SP said.

The maoists took away all the arms in the district armoury and the police training school in a truck and a hijacked bus.

Landmines laid by the maoists while retreating at Majuriapali near here injured one person.

Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik who visited the district on Saturday announced Rs 10 lakhs each to the families of the 13 policemen killed and Rs 2 lakhs to that of the civilian.

Six hundred policemen were dispatched to Nayagarh with an intensive combing operation being launched.

An unconfirmed report said that an encounter was taking place between the maoists and the police in neighbouring Kandhamal district in Nidhibarena and Gosama forests.