{"id":48250,"date":"2014-03-11T11:11:58","date_gmt":"2014-03-11T09:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=48250"},"modified":"2014-03-11T11:11:58","modified_gmt":"2014-03-11T09:11:58","slug":"20-soldiers-feared-dead-in-maoists-attack-in-india-48250","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/20-soldiers-feared-dead-in-maoists-attack-in-india-48250\/","title":{"rendered":"20 soldiers feared dead in Maoists attack in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_48251\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-48251\" style=\"width: 428px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-48251 \" alt=\"Deadly Maoist attack in Indian state of Chattisgarh.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Maoist-Attack-India-Nationalturk-11-535x360.jpg\" width=\"428\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Maoist-Attack-India-Nationalturk-11-535x360.jpg 535w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Maoist-Attack-India-Nationalturk-11-180x120.jpg 180w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Maoist-Attack-India-Nationalturk-11-280x188.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Maoist-Attack-India-Nationalturk-11.jpg 610w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 428px) 100vw, 428px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-48251\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Deadly Maoist attack in Indian state of Chattisgarh.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h1>In a deadly Maoist attack in Indian state of Chattisgarh,\u00a0 20 Indian police and paramilitary soldiers are feared dead.<\/h1>\n<p>New Delhi, March 11\/Nationalturk- At least 20 Indian police and paramilitary soldiers are feared dead in an attack by Maoists (also known as Naxalites) in Dantewada area of Chattisgarh state. The death toll may go up.<\/p>\n<p>Indian TV news channel NDTV quoted police sources as saying that a large group of Maoists armed with weapons ambushed a joint patrol party of police and paramilitary CRPF men \u00a0in \u00a0Tongpal near Jeeram valley in Dantewada district of Chhattisgarh state.<\/p>\n<p>They said the security men returned the fire, triggering an encounter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the ensuing encounter, which is going on, at least 19 police and paramilitary soldiers are feared dead. Many police and paramilitary personnel have also been injured in the Maoist attack,\u201d sources said adding bodies of five security men have been recovered so far.<\/p>\n<h2>Police officer confirms death of 20 security men<\/h2>\n<p>Chhattisgarh Police ADG Mukesh Gupta was quoted as saying by Indian TV channel CNN-IBN that\u00a0 20 security men were killed in the attack. \u201c15 were paramilitary soldiers and five were policemen\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Sources said the death toll may go up. \u201cThere were 44 police and paramilitary personnel in the patrol party when it was attacked by a large group of armed Maoists\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Additional police and paramilitary soldiers have been rushed to the spot to flush out the Maoists and prevent them from escaping.<\/p>\n<p>The Indian State of Chattisgarh has witnessed many attacks of Maoists in the past, causing heavy casualties to security men.<\/p>\n<p><em>Write your comments and thoughts below<\/em><\/p>\n<p><b>Asia News<\/b><strong>\/ NationalTurk India News<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a deadly Maoist attack in Indian state of Chattisgarh,  20 Indian police and paramilitary soldiers are feared dead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,80,63,1,118,101,14],"tags":[11380,52328,66069,41836,66067,12374,14231,66068,66066,2546,10271,10468,8818,66070,44200,10332],"class_list":["post-48250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-general","category-hot","category-politics","category-world","tag-attack","tag-chattisgarh","tag-chhattisgarh-police-adg","tag-cnn-ibn","tag-dantewada-area","tag-dead","tag-death-toll","tag-eencounter","tag-feared","tag-india","tag-indian-police","tag-maoist-attack","tag-maoists","tag-mukesh-gupta","tag-ndtv","tag-paramilitary-soldiers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}