Rebels kill 12 in anti-election campaign in India
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PATNA - Indian Maoist rebels killed 12 people in two separate attacks in the central state of Chhattisgarh on Saturday as they continue a campaign of violence aimed at disrupting a five-week national election.
Five election officials and two bus drivers were killed in a land mine blast while traveling from Kutru to Bijapur before planned balloting there next week, said the police director general, A.N. Upadhyay. Four people were injured and being treated in a hospital, he said.
In another attack Saturday, the rebels killed five paramilitary soldiers in an ambush on their vehicle in the remote Darbha Forest in the south of the state. (AP)
