Source: Agence France-Presse
Country: India
05/25/2013 18:15 GMT
RAIPUR, India, May 25, 2013 (AFP) - Heavily-armed Maoist rebels on Saturday killed 17 people, including 12 local Congress leaders, after ambushing a convoy in a remote tribal belt of central India, a top police officer said.
"We can confirm 17 deaths. Among those who have been killed are five policemen. The rest are all leaders of the state Congress unit," Rajinder Kumar Vij, the chief of anti-naxal operations of Chhattisgrah state, told AFP.
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