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Sukma attack: Four suspected Naxals arrested

Sukma attack: Four suspected Naxals arrested

TIL Desk/National/Sukma(Chhattisgarh)/ Four naxals have been arrested in Sumka, the CRPF tells MHA. The arrests were carried out after search operations by the CRPF and state police. A high-level meeting of the Unified Command will be held this week in Chhattisgarh to chalk out a comprehensive strategy to hit Maoists, in the aftermath of recent ambushes that has killed over 35 CRPF troops in the worst-hit Sukma district.

Chief Minister Raman Singh has called the meeting on May 5 in Raipur, officials said. The top brass of central paramilitary forces, the Chhattisgarh police, the Indian Air Force and state government authorities responsible  for the administration in Bastar and other Naxal violence hit districts of the state will take part in the meeting, they said.

The Unified Command was created in all the Maoist violence affected states in the aftermath of the 2010 Dantewada attack where 75 CRPF personnel and a state policeman, were killed in a deadly ambush carried out by Naxals. The Command is chaired by the respective chief ministers.

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