Maoists’ hideout discovered in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district
By ANIMonday, May 17, 2010
Bijapur (Chhattisgarh), May 17 (ANI): A joint patrol party of security personnel on Monday found a Maoist hideout that was used by the rebels as a camp in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district.
The security personnel recovered 30 quintal of wheat from the hideout including country-made generators used for running the camp, welding machines, assorted wires among the numerous items.
“State Police and CRPF (Central Reserve Police Force) personnel were patrolling and during the patrolling, they found a Maoist camp. They found a generator, a welding machine, wheat and other food items, uniforms, wires, bows and arrows and various other things. These were later destroyed,” said Avinash Mohanty, Superintendent of Police, Bijapur District.
Carrying out the biggest attack of its kind, Maoists in Chhattisgarh ambushed at least 76 personnel of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) on April 06.
On Monday (May 17), over 30 persons including policemen have been killed when the bus in which they were travelling hit a landmine planted by suspected Maoist rebels in the Dantewada region.
The Maoists, described by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as the country’s biggest internal security threat, started their armed struggle in Naxalbari town of West Bengal in 1967. (ANI)
