Information About Incident 32420-59312-138611 in Nayagarh India

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The combing operations were started on February 16 after hundreds of Maoists raided the police establishments in Nayagarh district, killing 15 persons, including 13 policemen, and decamping with huge quantities of arms and ammunition on February 15-night.

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At least 20 cadres of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist), including some women cadres, were killed during the ongoing combing operation by security forces (SFs) in the border area of Nayagarh-Ganjam-Kandhamal districts on February 17, reports The Hindu. SFs, however, lost three of their personnel in the combing operation launched on a massive scale in different sensitive pockets in Nayagarh, Ganjam, Gajapati, Kandhamal and Rayagada districts. The combing operations were started on February 16 after hundreds of Maoists raided the police establishments in Nayagarh district, killing 15 persons, including 13 policemen, and decamping with huge quantities of arms and ammunition on February 15-night.

Event ID Date Country Storyhead
32420-59312-138611 2/18/2008 India 20 Maoists killed in counter-insurgency operations in Orissa

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32420-59312-138611 2/18/2008 India attack Nayagarh
32420-59313-138613 2/18/2008 India kill Ganjam