Naxals gun down 17 policemen in Maharashtra

In a brazen attack, Naxals on Thursday ambushed a police patrol party mercilessly gunning down seventeen policemen in Gadchiroli, Maharashtra.

The policemen including a sub-inspector on patrol duty walked into an ambush set up by about 150-200 Naxals under the Laheri police station of the district, bordering Chhattisgarh, and were shot dead in an encounter that lasted over three hours.