Bhopal: today 10 police personnel and their driver were, killed in a blast carried out by Maoists in Chattisgarh’s Dantewada district. from the state capital Raipur, the area is around 450 km. the incident took place when a team from the state police’s district reserve guard(DRG) was returning after an anti-Maoist operation.
A significant chunk of Chhattisgarh is under the Red Corridor – the influence zone of the Maoists. The corridor spans across ten states in two coal-rich, remote, forested hilly clusters in and around the Dandakaranya-Chhattisgarh-Odisha region and the tri-junction area of Jharkhand-Bihar and West Bengal.
Dantewada is among the ten districts – Bastar, Bijapur, Kanker, Kondagaon, Narayanpur, Rajnandgaon, and Sukma – of the state which is affected by Maoism.