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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.
Five of the ten DRG personnel killed in the attack were former Maoists. [5] It was the first major casualties for the DRG in the Bastar region. [6] [7] In September 2023, a joint operation by the District Reserve Guard and the Central Reserve Police Force killed nine Maoists during an encounter in the Dantewada district. [8]
11 coordinated attacks by proven Pakistani terrorists; casualties include people of various nationalities, and Israeli victims were reportedly tortured before being killed. [95] April 2010 Maoist attack in Dantewada: 6 April 2010 Chhattisgarh: 76 Maoist militant ambushed CRPF 2010 Dantewada bus bombing: 17 May 2010 Chhattisgarh: 44
The Maoists targeted security personnel involved in the operations against them with major attacks such as the Silda camp attack, Dantewada ambush and 2010 Dantewada bus bombing. [ 93 ] [ 94 ] [ 95 ] They also killed civilians suspected of helping the government and those who were involved in building public infrastructure.
Since the inception of the movement in 2005, over 800 people have been killed by the Naxalites and security forces. This includes 300 security personnel, of which SPO deaths total 98—one in 2005; 29 in 2006; 66 in 2007; and 20 in 2008. [12] [19] By 2008, the Maoist rebels had altered their tactics. Operating in smaller groups, they now ...
He was also deputed as the official spokesperson of CPI (Maoist) after the death of Cherukuri Rajkumar (Azad) in 2010. Venugopal took charge of publication division of the party. [8] Police intelligence suspect he is one of the brains behind the April 2010 Maoist attack in Dantewada that killed 76 jawans of Central Reserve Police Force. [9]
A senior security official said that Rao alias Basavraj has been at the forefront in 2010 Maoist attack in Dantewada in which 76 CRPF soldiers were killed, the Jeeram Ghati attack in which 27 people, including former state minister Mahendra Karma [3] and Chhattigarh Congress leader Nand Kumar Patel, were killed.