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Maoists kill 15 CRPF men in Chhatisgarh

By IANS,

Raipur: In yet another deadly attack by Maoists, 15 paramilitary troopers were killed Tuesday in Chhattisgarh’s restive Bastar region, officials said.

Apart from the 15 dead, about a dozen personnel of the Central Reserve Police Force were injured in the attack in Narayanpur district, state Home minister Nankiram Kanwar said.

“A CRPF contingent of over 70 men was ambushed by Maoists in a forested stretch in Narayanpur,” an official at the police headquarters here told IANS.