Chhattisgarh (India): 19 Mining Trucks Set Ablaze

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Maoist sep­a­ratists set ablaze 19 trucks of Indi­an Govt

From the Dai­ly Mail

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Maoist sep­a­ratists set ablaze 19 trucks of Indi­an Govt
NEW DELHI—Over 100 Maoist guer­ril­las stormed into a min­ing com­plex of the state-run NMDC Ltd in Chhattisgarh’s restive Dan­te­wa­da dis­trict and set 19 trucks on fire in the ear­ly hours of Wednes­day. The armed Maoist sep­a­ratists raid­ed the min­ing com­plex of India’s largest iron ore min­er at Kiran­dul, about 400 km south of here, at around 2 am. “The rebels sneaked into Kirandul’s 11‑B deposit of the NMDC and burnt 19 trucks hired by NMDC for iron ore trans­porta­tion. This result­ed in pan­ic amongst the hun­dreds of NMDC staff engaged in min­ing in the hilly area,” Lakhan Thakur, in charge of the Kiran­dul police sta­tion, told media.…