Information About Incident 68134-139504-353982 in Dhamtari India

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The Maoists set Police motorcycles ablaze, looted an AK-47 rifles, two SLR and an INSAS rifle before fleeing to Shyamgiri hills area under Kowakonda Police Station.

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• Meta Location: Shyamgiri
• Matched District: Dhamtari
• Actgroup: attack
• Actor: The Maoists
• Subject: an AK-47 rifles , two SLR and an INSAS rifle before fleeing to Shyamgiri hills area under Kowakonda Police Station

Context

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Five Policemen, including a Police Sub-Inspector, were killed and three others injured in a Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) ambush in Dantewada District on February 28, reports The Times of India. The 12-member team led by Station House Officer (SHO) Vivek Shukla was on a patrol mission at a road construction site in Kowakonda-Bacheli area of Chhattisgarh when they were attacked. The Maoists set Police motorcycles ablaze, looted an AK-47 rifles, two SLR and an INSAS rifle before fleeing to Shyamgiri hills area under Kowakonda Police Station. Additional Director-General of Police Rajinder Kumar Vij said The patrol team comprising 12 Police personnel was moving on six motorcycles in Shyamagiri hills region, around five km from Kowakonda Police Station, when about 100 armed rebels attacked them, resulting in the death of the Sub-Inspector and four other Policemen on the spot. The others killed included Chhavilal Kashi, Sandeep Sahu, Dhaneshwar Mandavi and Naval Kishore Shandiya.

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