Ambush confirms new Maoist front along Orissa-Chhattisgarh border

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RAIPUR: For long, it has been suspected that the Maoists have opened a new front along the border of central Chhattisgarh and Orissa. An ambush on Monday confirmed that.

Nine policemen, including a young officer, were killed, just 140 kilometres from the state capital.

Early Tuesday morning, the bodies were found splayed in the bushes on both sides of a mud road. The bodies looked battered, and in one case, the skull had come apart, said an eyewitness. Not far, stood a Sumo vehicle, ridden with bullet holes on the left rear.

The team of Chhattisgarh policemen had come under sharp Maoist fire, 14 kilometres from the state border, near Sonabeda in Nuapara district of Orissa. They had travelled from Gariaband police station, part of Raipur district, 120 kilometres from the state capital. Gariaband adjoins Nuapara, and shares a contiguous forest area.