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Ambush Thirty seven personal belonging to elite anti-naxal force Greyhounds went missing after Maoists ambushed a motor launch carrying an Andhra Pradesh police team in the Chitrakonda reservoir just inside the Orissa border on Sunday. The launch was carrying 62 officers and constables when nearly 100 Maoists of the Kalimela dalam of Orissa sitting on two hillocks straddling the reservoir opened fire with rocket-launchers, mortars and light machine guns on the boat. Maoists killed the boat driver, who belonged to the Orissa agriculture department. The police also fired back and during the exchange of fire the fiber glass boat capsized after it was holed due to the firing by the Maoists.

Police According to the Police sources the boat sank when to defend themselves the personal carrying heavy rucksacks and weapons moved to the left of the boat. After the policemen fell in to the water the Maoists used country boats to reach them and opened fire. Two policemen and a boat driver were taken hostage by them. Only 25 “swam to safety”, six of them with bullet injuries, rest of the policemen are missing, feared drowned. “Some injured policemen were inside the cabin when the boat capsized. Whether they have managed to escape or have died would be known after the boat is recovered,” a police officer said.

Reports There are no confirmed reports about the exact figure of the safe and missing police personal. Director General of Andhra Pradesh Police S.S.P. Yadav told that 10 policemen were injured and 35 were missing after the attack. It was one of biggest and first of the year’s surprise attack on the police squad carried out by State Militia Commission, which was recently constituted by the Communist Party of India-Maoist to intensify attacks on the Andhra Pradesh-Orissa border. In the recent years Maoists had suffered several setbacks when they had lost over 300 armed cadres, including several top leaders. Search operation was launched by fire brigade and police personnel of the states of Andhra Pradesh and Orissa and was later on joined by Navel personal on Monday.

Maoists’ Base Maoists are slowly and quietly making their base in the cities Maoist leaders wander through the remotest vast areas of the country which are trapped in poverty and neglected by the government, raise some slogans and offer some instant justice for some social problems and pick up some young boys to fire a gun for a cause. . They are no longer confined to the jungles. Maoists are slowly and quietly making their base in the cities.