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There were about 11 men in the vehicle. A patrolling party was going
from Kistaram to Palodi in an anti-landmine vehicle which was targeted
by Naxals with an IED[a simple bomb made and used by unofficial or
unauthorized forces.]
at least nine Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel were killed and
six others were injured when Maoists blew up a mine-protected vehicle with
an IED in Sukma district, Chhattisgarh, India.[
Terrorism in India
Terrorism found in India includes ethno-nationalist terrorism, religious
terrorism, left wing terrorism and narco terrorism. The regions with long
term terrorist activities have been Jammu and Kashmir, east-central and
south-central India (Naxalism) and the Seven Sister States. Terror attacks
caused 231 civilian deaths in 2012 in India, compared to 11,098 terror-caused
deaths worldwide, according to the State Department of the United States.
SATP (South Asia Terrorism Portal) has listed 180 terrorist groups that have
operated within India over the last 20 years, many of them co-listed as
transnational terror networks operating in or from neighboring South Asian
countries such as Bangladesh, Nepal and Pakistan