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The 2010 Dantewada bus bombing occurred on 17 May 2010 when a bus hit a landmine 50 km away from Dantewada, in Chhattisgarh's Dantewada district. Fatalities reports range from 31[1] to 44,[2] including several Special Police Officers (SPOs) and civilians.[3][4]
It was the first Naxal attack to target a civilian bus.[5] The attack occurred one month after Dantewada witnessed the worst-ever massacre of CRPF jawans, when 76 troops were killed in the April 2010 Maoist attack in Dantewada.
References
- ↑ Stone-pelters kill 11-day-old infant in Kashmir.
- ↑ Talks with Maoists if they suspend violence: Chidambaram. The Times of India(18 May 2010).
- ↑ Naxals blow up bus near Dantewada, 50 feared killed(17 May 2010).
- ↑ Stone-pelters kill 11-day-old infant in Kashmir.
- ↑ Maoists blow up private bus in Dantewada, kill 36 - Hindustan Times.