NEW DELHIcTypeface:> At least eight policemen and a driver have been killed in central India when a bomb blast set off by Maoist rebels tossed their vehicle into the air, police have said.
The police vehicle in which the victims were travelling was hit by a roadside blast in the Bijapur district of Chhattisgarh state on Monday, a police statement said.
The attack took place as soldiers were returning from an anti-Maoist operation on Saturday, where four rebels and a police officer were killed.
“Eight security forces and a driver were killed today when the vehicle in which they were travelling in came in contact with a landmine,” said Vivekanand Sinha, chief of the state police’s anti-Maoist operations. Photographs published by Indian media showed a deep crater ripped into the road by the blast. (Agencies)
