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Even as the Cabinet Committee on Security cleared a new plan to tackle Maoists at its meeting in New Delhi on Thursday, Oct.8, the Naxals ambushed a patrol party of the police at Gadchiroli in Maharashtra, killing 17 policemen. Several others were injured.

Reports say that a group of Naxals, said to be one hundred to two hundred strong, ambushed an elite police team that was conducting a routine exercise near the border with Chhattisgarh. The encounter lasted three to four hours. The ...