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Explained : What's behind the skyrocketing maoist killings this year
At least 12 maoists were neutralised by police in Maharashtra’s Gadchiroli on the Chhattisgarh border and two cops died in an IED blast that targeted the raiding police party in Bastar earlier this week – the latest in a series of anti-naxal operations …