Maoist guerrillas on Saturday unsuccessfully tried to repeat the May 17 Chingawara tragedy in which they had blown up a passenger bus and killed 35 people by targeting another civilian bus in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district, reports reaching here said.

Suspected Maoists on Tuesday killed three of the 20 villagers abducted by them on May 23 from Gopalpatnam police station area in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district.
According to the reports, 11 hostages, including a woman, were released by the rebels in the morning, while six others still remained untraced.

In a major breakthrough, the Chhattisgarh police on Monday arrested six Maoists allegedly invo-lved in the April 6 massacre of 76 CRPF personnel at Dantewada, at Kottabura, barely 4 km from Chint-alnar, where the killings took place. Those arrested were self-styled Naxal commander Barsa Lakshma, Oyam Hidma, Podiami Hidma, Kawasi Budra, Oya Ganga and Durga Joga.

Chhattisgarh chief minister Raman Singh is reportedly under pressure from the top brass of the state police not to take action against two IPS officers, posted in Dantewada district, for their “command failure” in connection with the April 6 Chintalnar massacre of 76 security personnel by the Maoists.

After lying low for about one and half years, salwa judum — a tribal movement against Naxals in Bastar region of Chhattisgarh — is all set for revival, giving a new twist to the ongoing anti-Maoist campaign in the state.

Top Maoist leader Ramanna on Tuesday claimed responsibility for Monday’s attack on a passenger bus at Chingawaram, in Chhattisgarh’s Dantewada district, which left 35 people dead (24 civilians and 11

Top Maoist leader Ramanna on Tuesday claimed responsibility for Monday’s attack on a passenger bus at Chingawaram, in Chhattisgarh’s Dantew-ada district, which left 35 people dead (24 civilians and 11

At least 35 people, including 11 special police officers — tribals recruited to assist anti-Naxal operations — were killed when the passenger bus in which they were travelling was destroyed in a Maoist landmine blast at Chingawaram, in Chhattisgarh’s Dante-wada district, nearly 480 km from here, on Monday evening.