02-10-2008, 03:27 AM
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Pioneer News Service | Chennai
In a suspected Maoist raid, an unidentified group barged into a police station in Dharmapuri district in <b>north-west Tamil Nadu </b>early on Saturday and decamped with six rifles and a radio handset, police said.
A senior police officer, who visited Adhiyamankottai police station, about seven km from Dharmapuri, said it was too early to say if the attackers were Maoists. Dharmapuri has seen Maoist activity in the past, but in recent times, a few Maoist suspects have been arrested in faraway Theni in southern Tamil Nadu. Police suspect Maoist involvement in the light of past attacks by Naxalites on the police station, on the Salem-Dharmapuri national highway.
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Pioneer News Service | Chennai
In a suspected Maoist raid, an unidentified group barged into a police station in Dharmapuri district in <b>north-west Tamil Nadu </b>early on Saturday and decamped with six rifles and a radio handset, police said.
A senior police officer, who visited Adhiyamankottai police station, about seven km from Dharmapuri, said it was too early to say if the attackers were Maoists. Dharmapuri has seen Maoist activity in the past, but in recent times, a few Maoist suspects have been arrested in faraway Theni in southern Tamil Nadu. Police suspect Maoist involvement in the light of past attacks by Naxalites on the police station, on the Salem-Dharmapuri national highway.
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