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India Maoist rebels kill 13 policemen in Chhattisgarh | |
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Maoist rebels have killed 13 paramilitary policemen in an ambush in central India, officials say. | |
Police say rebels attacked members of the Central Reserve Police Force in Sukma district of Chhattisgarh state, 450km from the state capital Raipur. | |
The policemen were reportedly surrounded and attacked while raiding a rebel hideout. | |
The Maoists say they are fighting for communist rule and greater rights for tribal people and the rural poor. | |
Their insurgency began in the eastern state of West Bengal in the late 1960s, spreading to more than one-third of India's 600-plus administrative districts. |