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RAIPUR: Two CRPF commandos were killed in an IED blast triggered by Naxalites in Chhattisgarh's Dantewada district early on Monday.
The attack comes just a day after Maoists blew off an anti-landmine vehicle killing a CRPF trooper in the same district.
A Tata-407 vehicle was blown up killing two CoBRA commandos on the spot, senior officials said.
The commandos, identified as constable K P Singh and Mukul Burman, were carrying rations for a CRPF camp nearby when the blast occurred.
Senior officials said the blast took place near Basuguda, where joint security forces had carried out a controversial encounter last month.
GUWAHATI: The anti-talk faction of the ULFA has called Assam bandh on August 15 and asked the people to refrain from participating in the Independence Day celebrations.
In an e-mail sent to media, ULFA 'assistant information and publicity secretary' Arunuday Asom said, places where Independence Day celebrations are organised would be 'legitimate targets' for the outfit and asked the people to stay away from such spots.
He, however, did not specify whether the bandh is for 12 hours or for 24 hours.
Meanwhile, in a separate joint statement, seven militant outfits of the north east called for the customary boycott of the celebrations and general strike in the region on the day.
The strike would be in force from 1 a.m. to 5.30 p.m. in the entire region, ULFA,National Democratic Front of Bodoland, Kamtapur Liberation Organisation, Coordination Committee Manipur, Tripura Peoples Democratic Front, National Liberation Front of Tripura and Hynnewtrep National Liberation Council said in a statement.
Kokrajhar: In a fresh outbreak of ethnic violence in Assam, suspected militants shot at four labourers in Chirang district on the Assam-Bhutan border, killing one and wounding three.
All four were returning from Bhutan, and planned to take a train to their hometown of Malda in West Bengal. Shortly after they crossed the border into Assam, they were advised by the Sena Suraksha Bal, a border force, to report to the local police station for their security given the prevailing tensions. But as they were walking towards the police station, two men on a bike pulled up. The pillion rider fired on them with a pistol from point blank range. One of them died on the spot. Two others were wounded, but said to be out danger. The sole survivor fled and managed to find safety in a nearby house. He was later taken into police protection.
Police suspect the role of Bodo militants, especially the faction of the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB), which is against talks. The NDFB is suspected in at least two other shootings in this latest cycle of ethnic violence.
Monday's incident pushes up the death toll to 78. It comes on day when Congress President Sonia Gandhi visited the violence-prone Kokrajhar and Dhubri districts of Assam along with Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde and assured locals to an end to violence.
Maoists kill construction firm manager, abduct two others in Bihar
Jamui (Bihar), Aug.11 (ANI): In an unprecedented attack, Maoists in Bihar's Jamui District killed a construction company manager and abducted two employees for not paying 'taxes' imposed by the rebels.
The company was engaged in construction work at Ghorlahi village that falls under Laxmipur Police Station in Jamui district.
Jamui's Deputy Superintendent of Police Virendra Sahu said the rebel attack took place around midnight. He said that the Maoists killed Ishwar Sao and abducted fellow workers Toofani Yadav and Raju Kumar Singh.
Sao hailed from the state's Amarva region, while Toofani Yadav and Raju Kumar Singh belonged to Baijla and Bihar Sharif regions respectively.
Sahu said Ishwar Sao's body was found on the hood of a jeep that was parked on the road leading to Belata and Khilar.
The whereabouts of the other two are unknown, he added.
He said that the Maoist outfit has been identified and probe is on to track them down and rescue the two hostages.
Police said that two days ago, they had nabbed two Maoists in Jamui.
Also known as Naxals, the rebels have fought for decades in a wide swathe of central and eastern India, including many resource-rich regions, where tensions run high between poor farmers and industrial developers.
The government has described them India's main internal security threat and an obstacle to higher growth and more jobs in Asia's third-largest economy. Hundreds die annually in the conflict, although levels of violence have fallen in recent years.
The Maoists say they are fighting for the rights of millions of landless people.
In the last few years, the rebels have stepped up their efforts against the government as well as the locals, after various locals complained that Maoist activities such as killings and abductions increased considerably in the area.
According to certain reports, Maoists are facing an acute shortage of personnel in several areas of central and eastern India, due to the steps taken by the state and central security forces to curtail the insurgency.
The guerrilla war, waged mostly from the forests of central and eastern India now poses the biggest internal security challenge, say analysts. (ANI)
Militants target Baramulla police station; 6 injured
Date: 8 Aug 2012
Militants target Baramulla police station; 6 injured
M Aamir
Srinagar, August 8: Six persons, including three policemen, were injured after some unidentified militants lobbed a hand grenade at the Pattan police station in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district today.
The attack on the police station, which falls on the Srinagar-Baramulla highway, took place at 8.05 pm. The militants fled the spot, taking advantage of the darkness.
The police cordoned off the area and launched a search operation. No militant outfit has claimed responsibility for the attack so far.
The attack took place around half an hour after the iftar (fast-breaking) time. This is the fifth such incident in the fasting month of Ramadhan. Four serial grenade attacks were made on July 31 and August 1.
While a police constable was injured during the attack at a Sopore market, no one was injured in the Sopore police station attack, both of which took place on July 31. The next day, grenades were lobbed at a CRPF camp at Chanapora and at a sarpanch’s house in Kupwara district. No casualties were reported during the incidents.
Manipur: Four injured in bomb blasts during I-Day celebrations
Four persons were injured when a series of bombs exploded in Manipur during Independence day celebrations on Wednesday.
Official sources said the first explosion was reported from interior Thoubal district at a fair ground, near the district headquarters, at around 8am while arrangements were being made to celebrate the occasion.
Puducherry, Aug 15 (PTI) Unidentified persons today hurled a couple of crude bombs at the house of a French national here, police said.
Two motorcycle-borne men hurled the bombs when the resident of the house, a French woman of Puducherry origin, was away attending mass at a church in Nellithope, police said.
On her return, the woman found that a window and the balcony of the house had been damaged and informed police.
No one has been arrested.