Maoists kill 22 Indian cops, paramilitaries Top Story April 5, 2021 BIJAPUR: Twenty-two Indian police and paramilitary forces were killed and 30 others wounded in a gun battle with Maoist rebels in a central Indian state, police said Sunday, in the deadliest ambush of its kind in four years. Some 2,000 security personnel were on the hunt for a Maoist rebel leader in Bijapur district in Chhattisgarh state on Saturday when they were ambushed, a police officer told AFP. "So far it is confirmed that 22 security personnel were killed," Chhattisgarh police´s Additional Director General Ashok Juneja said of the almost three-hour battle in the Maoist rebel stronghold.