In one of the biggest setbacks to the security forces since the NDA government came to power in May, at least 14 Central Reserve Police Force personnel were killed and 12 others injured, three of them critically, in a Maoist ambush in Chhattisgarh’s south Bastar district of Sukma on Monday. Those killed included assistant commandant Rajesh Kapuria and deputy commandant D.S. Verma of the Central paramilitary force, the police said.
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