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The April 2010 Dantewada Maoist attack [1] [2] was an 6 April 2010 ambush by Naxalite-Maoist insurgents from the Communist Party of India (Maoist) near Chintalnar village in Dantewada district, Chhattisgarh, India, leading to the killing of 76 CRPF policemen and 8 Maoists [3] — the deadliest attack by the Maoists on Indian security forces.
On 26 April 2023, a blast took place in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh's Dantewada district.While they were returning from an anti-Maoist operation undertaken based on intelligence inputs, a party of ten policemen and their driver who were members of the District Reserve Guard (DRG) of Chhattisgarh Police were killed in a blast caused by an improvised explosive device (IED) detonated by Naxals.
In October 2023, security forces, including the DRG and Special Task Force, killed 28 Maoists in an operation in Dantewada's Abujhmad region following intelligence reports. [ 9 ] On January 6, 2025, a Naxalite attack in Bijapur, Chhattisgarh , killed nine people, including eight police personnel of District Reserve Guard and a civilian driver ...
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29 August: Three women Maoists were killed in an encounter with the security forces in Narayanpur district, Chhattisgarh. [299] 3 September: Nine Maoists were killed including Macherla Esobu, who had a bounty of ₹ 2.5 million (US$29,000) and weapons including multiple rifles were seized in Dantewada district, Chhattisgarh. [300]
The count of Jan (People's) Militia is around 38,000 which is mostly composed of the tribal people who uses bows and arrows as their weapons and allegedly provide logistical support to the PLGA. [13] During her visit to the Maoist's guerrilla zones few years back, Arundhati Roy noted that the PLGA was 45% female, [ 12 ] but the recent analyses ...
Over the last year, [when?] more than 350 people have been killed and 50,000 moved into camps in the Dantewada district, as a result of a Maoist uprising. In April 2010, the Maoist terrorists killed at least 75 Indian soldiers in a series of attacks on security convoys in Dantewada. [ 4 ]
On April 26 2023, 10 policemen and their driver belonging to the District Reserve Guard (DRG) of Chhattisgarh Police were killed in a IED attack by Maoists in Dantewada District, Chhattisgarh. The forces were attacked while returning from counterinsurgency operations in the area. [129]