India: More than 50 maoist rebels kill 4 policemen in Jharkhand
A group of more than 50 Maoist guerrillas in eastern India ambushed a police patrol on Tuesday, killing the district police chief and three other officers, officials said.
The rebels opened fire on vehicles carrying police superintendent Amarjeet Balihar in Dumka district in Jharkhand, an impoverished and densely forested state home to a large Maoist movement.
“More than 50 armed Maoists were involved in the attack,” deputy police superintendent Anil Srivastava told AFP from state capital Ranchi by telephone.
“Two others have been injured,” he said, adding that Balihar was the police chief of Pakur, one of the several Jharkhand districts where Maoists hold sway.