In another gruesome ambush, Maoists killed 25 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) jawans on Monday which shocked the conscience of the entire country. Yesterday's ambush isn't the first as last one decade has seen several such attacks which left scores of CRPF and other security personnel dead every time.?
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Here is the timeline of the major attacks by Maoists which saw CTTPF jawans dying in big numbers:
1) ?On March 11 this year, Naxalites laid a deadly ambush and killed 12 jawans of the CRPF in Chhattisgarh's Sukma district.
2) In July of 2016, at least 10 CRPF commandos belonging to the elite COBRA unit were killed and five others injured when Naxals targeted them with IED blast in ?Bihar's Aurangabad district. ??
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According to the officials, an encounter occurred between the jawans of the COBRA unit and the Naxals after the IED blast. The officials revealed that the encounter resulted in the killing of three Naxals by late Monday night.
3) Dantewada attack: On March 30, 2016, seven CRPF men were killed in Chhattisgarh's Dantewada district in a landmine explosion.?
4) Palamau attack: In January in 2016, the Maoists killed seven security personnel by triggering IED blast.?
5) Attack on senior Congress leaders: In May of 2013, heavily-armed Maoists ambushed a convoy of Congress leaders in Chattisgarh's Sukma district, killing 27 people, including senior Congress leader Mahendra Karma, and injuring senior leader V C Shukla and 31 others.
A day after the attack, bullet-riddled bodies of abducted Chhattisgarh Congress chief Nand Kumar Patel, his son and eight others were found in Bastar.
6) ?In June of 2010, 26 personnel of the CRPF's 39 Battalion were killed in a Maoist ambush in Chhattisgarh's Narayanpur district.
The ambush was one in a string of lethal attacks which were perpetrated by the ultras between February and June that year.
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7) 2010 Dantewada attack: In April of 2010, ?75 jawans of the CRPF were killed in an ambush by Maoists in Chhattisgarh's Dantewada region.
8) 2010 Midnapore attack: On February 15, 2010, 24 personnel of the Eastern Frontier Rifles were killed in their camp in Silda in West Midnapore district of West.
9) Malkangiri landmine attack: In July of 2008, Maoists blew up a police van in a landmine blast and killed 21 policemen in Odisha's Malkangiri district.
10) 2008 boat attack: In June, Maoists attacked a boat at Odisha's Balimela reservoir carrying four police officials and 60 Greyhound commandos. A total of ?38 troops were killed in the action.