Maoist rebels kill 26 Indian Reserve Police Force members

NEW DELHI, April 24 (KUNA) -- Indian police sources said on Monday that at least 26 members of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) were killed in an encounter with the rebel Maoists in Sukma district of the central Indian Chhattisgarh.
India's Asian News International said quoting security sources that the encounter took place at noon today between the Burkapal Chintagufa area located in the worst Maoist violence-affected region of Bastar resulting in the killing of 26 CRPF personnel and injuring six others seriously.
Additional superintendent of Sukma police Jitendra Shukla said that members of the 74th Battalion of CRPF came under indiscriminate firing while they were on duty to secure an under construction road at Burkapal near Chintagufa city. Maoist rebels had killed last month 11 members of the CRPF in Sukma.
Maoist rebels are active in various Indian states including Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Odisha, Bihar and Maharashtra. The banned group is waging an armed struggle for decades against the government and its developmental projects in order to establish a communist society toppling the current system which they call as semi-feudal and semi-colonial. (end) atk.mt