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<b>Naxals mow down 17 in Chhattisgarh relief camp</b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->In a major attack, a large number of Naxalites on Monday killed 17 villagers and injured 70, besides kidnapping over 20 people in Dantewada district of Chhattisgarh.

"About 800 Naxalites simultaneously attacked a CRPF post and a state government run relief camp at Errabore at 1 am killing 17 villagers and injured 70 people of the camp," official sources from Konta block of Dantewada district said.

<b>Over 20 people, including a woman Special Police Officer, were abducted by the Naxalites from the camp, where about 4000 villagers were staying because of Naxal threat, </b>sources said.

Naxalites first attacked the CRPF camp so as to engage the security forces and then they raided the relief camp and carried out blasts and opened indiscriminate firing, besides setting on fire the huts of the camps at Errabore relief camp, about 40 km from Konta block headquarters, the sources said.

At least 17 villagers were killed and over 70 were injured in the Naxal attack and when a CRPF party chased them the Naxalites sneaked into the nearby jungles along with over 20 kidnapped villagers, they said.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->