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.

Maoist rebels on Sunday brutally killed six villagers, including a local sarpanch, by slitting their throats at Teregaon in Chhattisgarh’s Rajnandgaon district, suspecting them to be police informers,