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Afghanistan/South Asia
29 killed in battle with Maoist rebels in Bihar
2005-06-24
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NEW DELHI - At least 29 people were killed after Maoist rebels launched an attack in the eastern Indian state of Bihar, news reports said on Friday. At least 100 Maoist rebels attacked a police station and two banks in a village in Bihar's East Champaran district, adjoining Nepal, on Thursday, the PTI news agency reported quoting a senior police official. Security forces cordoned off the area and a fierce encounter with the rebels followed, state-run Doordarshan television reported.

A senior Bihar police official said bodies of 10 civilians, including two women, had been recovered after the encounter which ended early Friday. He said two security forces personnel and a bank security guard died in the encounter.

At least 16 rebels were also killed in the encounter, the police said. At least three of them belonged to Nepal's Maoist Communist Party, while the others were from the Maoist Communist Centre which operates across five Indian states.

Several rounds of ammunition and three rifles were recovered from the site of the gunbattle, the police said.
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