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2018 Sukma attack

On 13 March 2018, an IED blast occurred when a contingent of CRPF's


212th battalion was patrolling in a mine-protected vehicle in the forest
of Kistaram area in Sukma district, Chhattisgarh. At least nine Central
Reserve Police Force personnel were killed and six others were injured
in the attack.[1] The blast ripped the vehicle apart and some dead bodies
were found 20 to 30 feet away from the blast site. The injured were
airlifted for treatment in Raipur.[2]

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.

Media reports have alleged and implicated terrorism in India to be sponsored


by Pakistan, particularly through its Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI).[12][13] In
2012, the US accused Pakistan of enabling and ignoring anti-India terrorist
cells working on its soil; however, Pakistan has denied its involvement.

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

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