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Around 6 a.m. a team of 120 personnel of the paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) was getting ready in their camp for breakfast when they got an urgent message about a possible Maoist conclave in Tadmetla area of Dantewada district of Chhattisgarh in central India.

The men of the 62nd battalion had gone just a few kilometres when multiple blasts rocked the convoy and tossed their armoured vehicles into the air as simultaneously over 700 Maoist fighters opened indiscriminate fire from a hilltop.
It was a flash attack...

Dead bodies of paramilitary soldiers at Chintanar in Dantewada district of Chhattisgarh on Tuesday after a Maoists' attack. 'It was a flash attack, we were just enjoying travelling on a hilly stretch when something thundered. When I realised what it was, I saw scores of my colleagues were in a pool of blood. I immediately understood everything as the Maoists were spraying bullets on us,' Ramesh, a CRPF cop who survived and was airlifted to Raipur's Ram Krishna Care Hospital from the battle site with multiple blast injuries


'It was a terrible scene, body parts were seen lying at the attack site, I don't know how I survived because there was no escape route and gun shots were coming in from all directions,' he said. He added: 'I never dreamt of such a deadly ambush.' He informed that personnel of the 62nd battalion were on an 'area domination mission' in Dantewada as a part of the ongoing offensive against Maoists.
At least 75 personnel were killed and several injured in the worst such attack by Maoists.
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