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Maoist Attack in Dantewada: The Improvised Explosive Device (IED) was prepared by 40-50 kg of explosive material. , India News, Times Now

Amid cries and loud chanting of 'Bharat Mata ki Jai', wreaths were laid on Thursday at the mortal remains of 10 police personnel and a civilian driver who died in a blast carried out by Maoists in Chhattisgarh's Dantewada district.

The Aranpur attack that has claimed 11 lives is the seventh such big attack in Dantewada by the Naxals in the last 13 years and all of them came during the TCOC campaign launched every summer by the CPI (Maoist) from March to May

Security agencies have termed the naxal strike in Chhattisgarh as ‘cowardly’ and said that it was timed to coincide with the annual CPI (Maoist) counter-offensive campaign.

The CM who was scheduled to visit poll-bound Karnataka for the election campaign has cancelled his trip.

Sources say the April 18 attack on Congress MLA Vikram Mandavi set in motion events that culminated in Wednesday’s attack, in which an IED set off by the Naxals killed 10 police personnel and a civilian driver in Dantewada district. The attackers had local help, add sources

Naxalite attacks are particularly high in the summers, an analysis by the Intelligence Bureau has shown.

District Reserve Guard personnel were returning from an anti-Maoist operation In a shocking incident, ten police police personnel and a driver have been killed in a blast by Maoists in Chhattisgarhs Dantewada.

Dantewada Maoist attack: 10 DRG jawans and a driver, on way for an anti-Naxal operation, have been killed in an IED blast carried out by Maoists in Chhattisgarhs Dantewada

An IED attack was carried out by Naxals on a vehicle carrying District Reserve Guard personnel near Aranpur in Chhattisgarhs Dantewada district.