Landmine kills at least 15 police in western India
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Suspected leftist insurgents killed at least 15 police and a civilian driver in a landmine attack on two security vehicles on Wednesday in the western state of Maharashtra in India, police said, as the state celebrated its foundation day.
The Maoist insurgents, known as Naxals, have battled the state for decades, saying they are fighting for people left out of a long economic boom in Asia’s third-largest economy.
Security forces killed at least 37 Maoist militants last year in Gadchiroli, the same district where Wednesday’s attack took place.
In a post shared on Twitter, Prime Minister Narendra Modi condemned the attack.
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May 01, 2019 02:37pm
Very Sad.
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May 01, 2019 02:39pm
This will investigated to the bare bone and perpetrator dealt with justice.
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May 01, 2019 02:50pm
Time to take some serious measures to crush this naxalites.
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May 01, 2019 02:51pm
India union, instead of focusing on peace and welfare of its people is buying foreign arms and war mongering. A recipe for a disastrous fate like the Soviet union.
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May 01, 2019 02:58pm
these are local gundas.they are active where situation for police is not favourable.police vome as visitor from 50 to 100 k.m.distance.the senior police officers not like village comon area.so police not follow secutity measurs.if any one enter in enemy area.he should follow full precaution measurs.these lical gunda so terrorise local .so he not give information to police.ehen police take any action the leftist raise issue of human right.
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May 01, 2019 03:23pm
Very Sad.
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May 01, 2019 03:33pm
India has a lot of problems to deal with, regardless of the image they try to portray.
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May 01, 2019 03:47pm
Loss of life is deplorable either sides of border.
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May 01, 2019 04:01pm
@M. Emad, Chowkidar not doing his job more like busy spewing hate against Pakistan.!
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May 01, 2019 04:14pm
@M. Emad,
Its freedom struggle.
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May 01, 2019 04:19pm
Maoists can not win by killing people. These are the kind of people behind Stalinist purges and the so-called Cultural Revolution in China that killed people in thousands. They thirst for blood, whether in power or not.
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May 01, 2019 04:42pm
How surprising, Pakistan is not blamed by Moody or is he working out another bunch of lies to through at the world.
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May 01, 2019 04:45pm
Modi you are cunning as a fox But your covert activities will haunt you. The world knows that you or BJP had full knowledge of what happened in Siri Lanka where 350 innocent people died.
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May 01, 2019 04:47pm
Why isn’t this labelled as Terror? Or is it that only attacks by Muslims can be classified as terror. Sheer hypocrisy
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May 01, 2019 04:53pm
Give them freedom. You can not keep opressing people and expect them to stay your slaves.
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May 01, 2019 05:05pm
Gadchiroli and surrounding area is a densely forest area which is also known for its backwardness. The tribesmen ( known as Adivasi )staying there are innocent people. Maoist work with tribesmen to destabilize local administration and try to implement their own set of rules. These Maoist do not prefer any development in the region as it will affect their earnings and hold over local people. Unfortunately, there are hardly people who work with local people from civilian society. The statecraft has no option but to use of force to tackle Maoist people. But most of the time innocent gets killed whether they are poor tribesmen or police force.
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May 01, 2019 05:11pm
false flag operations of Indian Govt.. Modi can do anything to win elections
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May 01, 2019 05:20pm
Indian oppression in IOK and in East are burning India. The fire will spread.
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May 01, 2019 05:46pm
RIP
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May 01, 2019 06:17pm
China and Pakistan will support oppressed in India to fight against oppression.
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May 01, 2019 06:35pm
Violence will not stop until China has complete control of South Asia.
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May 01, 2019 07:15pm
Sad. Tragic. And disgusting loss of precious lives. Rest In Peace.
Gordon D. Walker
Canada
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May 01, 2019 07:42pm
Time for India to get a taste of their own medicine
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May 01, 2019 07:54pm
Keep suppressing the poor Naxals, Sikhs and Kashmiris. Keep paying the price.
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May 01, 2019 09:22pm
They used to be around Raipur Chattisgarh area, maybe the ideology drifted westwards towards Maharashtra.
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May 01, 2019 09:35pm
India has to resolve the issues of Maoists.
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May 01, 2019 09:37pm
As usual they will blame pakistan instead of talking to their own people and adressing their issues.
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May 01, 2019 10:17pm
Who are they blaming this time? Bhutan?
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May 01, 2019 10:21pm
If someone here blamed Pakistan or ISI for this ,I for one will never accept it .This is failour of police training and policy to deal with genuine needs of locals.
In this age , expectations become high for a common citizen and merely lip service to deal with those expectations results into this.
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May 02, 2019 01:13am
These attacks are result of Indian atrocities against the people in red corridor. Poll from those areas clearly show that locals support Naxals more then Indian army. India should stop its atrocities against people from red corridor and hold talks with naxals.
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May 02, 2019 02:07pm
@Zak, Have some knowledge of geography first. This is in Maharashtra central India.
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May 02, 2019 06:29pm
@bhaRAT©, Height of ignorance. They are naxalites -variant of communism prohibited in Pakistan-who oppose capitalism altogether. They don't believe in democracy and validate violence to achieve their goals.
We are a democracy and allow plurality. And insuch a big country such deviant political views can't be curtailed. But violence is difficult to contain because they have support inside and outside of the country.
They are not asking for freedom.
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May 02, 2019 06:30pm
@Haider , Height of ignorance. They are not asking for freedom.
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May 02, 2019 06:32pm
@Umair, Every country with size and diversity will have problems. Only Pakistan has none.
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May 02, 2019 06:34pm
@Zak, Fight inflation first.
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May 03, 2019 06:58am
@Zak, Comparatively speaking, your favourite enemy is way ahed of you and does not need your expertise.
Most countries have internal enemies.
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