Information About Incident 63194-127305-322829 in Bolangir India

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The meeting took place amid intelligence reports that the extremists are planning to blow up the nearly a 110-meter-long Kiang Bridge the only connection to the rather inaccessible hilly and heavily forested Mathili area, bordering Chhattisgarh.

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Further, the Unified Command of Odisha, headed by the State Chief Secretary, met in Bhubaneswar on May 8 to take stock of the situation and chalk out strategies for containing CPI-Maoist perpetrated violence in Malkangiri District of Odisha, reports The Times of India. Odisha State Government is worried over the sudden rise in CPI-Maoist violence in the interior areas of Malkangiri District, particularly in Mathilli block, which in the last few weeks has witnessed a number of kidnappings, murders and destruction of public property. The meeting took place amid intelligence reports that the extremists are planning to blow up the nearly a 110-meter-long Kiang Bridge the only connection to the rather inaccessible hilly and heavily forested Mathili area, bordering Chhattisgarh. There is a security camp at Mathilil, but forces hardly move into the interior areas crossing the bridge out of fear of being ambushed by the extremists. If the bridge is destroyed the area will be totally cut off, official sources pointed out.

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63194-127305-322829 5/9/2013 India Three more persons abducted by Maoists in Odisha

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