03-25-2006, 09:36 PM
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Pioneer.com
Agencies/ Raipur \
Thirteen people were killed and four others injured, three of them seriously, when Maoists exploded a land mine at a private passenger vehicle in Kanker district on Saturday, police said.
The Maoists triggered the landmine blast under Pakhanjur police station area, about 250 km from here killing 13 people on the spot and injuring four, Pakhanjur police sources said over phone.
The incident took place when some traders were returning from Sangham village and the naxalites triggered the land mine blast, "mistaking the jeep to be a police vehicle", the sources said.
A police party has rushed to the spot, they said.
The sources said all the killed and injured were families of Bangladeshi refugees, who were settled in and around Pakhanjur.
[it should be Illegal Bangladeshi]
The incident comes a day after Bastar police killed five naxalites, including a "deputy commander", close to Kanker border, in an encounter, Bastar SP Gurjinder Pal Singh said.
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Pioneer.com
Agencies/ Raipur \
Thirteen people were killed and four others injured, three of them seriously, when Maoists exploded a land mine at a private passenger vehicle in Kanker district on Saturday, police said.
The Maoists triggered the landmine blast under Pakhanjur police station area, about 250 km from here killing 13 people on the spot and injuring four, Pakhanjur police sources said over phone.
The incident took place when some traders were returning from Sangham village and the naxalites triggered the land mine blast, "mistaking the jeep to be a police vehicle", the sources said.
A police party has rushed to the spot, they said.
The sources said all the killed and injured were families of Bangladeshi refugees, who were settled in and around Pakhanjur.
[it should be Illegal Bangladeshi]
The incident comes a day after Bastar police killed five naxalites, including a "deputy commander", close to Kanker border, in an encounter, Bastar SP Gurjinder Pal Singh said.
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