Suspected Maoist rebels killed at least nine Indian policemen and then mutilated their bodies in a gruesome attack in the eastern state of Orissa, a top police officer said on Tuesday.
The policemen from Raipur, the capital of the neighbouring state of Chhattisgarh, had gone on an anti-Maoist sweep through a remote and forested area near the border with Orissa before coming under attack. “Police have recovered the bodies of nine security personnel from the gunbattle site and all have been mutilated by the Maoists,” a spokesman for Chhattisgarh police, Rajesh Mishra, told AFP.
“The Maoists have done this to create terror among the forces,” he added. A search party has been sent out to try to find a 10th member of the team whose whereabouts are unknown, he said.
