Information About Incident 34108-63442-149532 in Puri India

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The personnel had gone to MPV-41 village, where a contractor's house was attacked by Maoists on July 15-night.

From this sentence, the following information was extracted.

• Meta Location: MPV-41, MPV-41
• Matched District: Puri
• Actgroup: attack, attack
• Actor: by Maoists - night, by Maoists - night
• Subject: a contractor 's house, a contractor 's house

Context

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On July 16, Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres killed 20 personnel of the Special Operations Group (SOG) of the Orissa Police in a landmine blast in the Malkangiri district, reports The Hindu. Unofficial reports put the death toll at 24. The blast occurred at 4 pm (IST) in the MV-126 area when an anti-landmine van carrying the police team was returning to the district headquarters town of Malkangiri. The personnel had gone to MPV-41 village, where a contractor s house was attacked by Maoists on July 15-night. A majority of the SOG personnel were in the anti-landmine vehicle and the remaining were on motorcycles. Soon after the blast, the Maoists, hiding in the nearby forest, opened fire on the policemen.

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