24/06/2005 - 08:01:53
Security forces fought rebels in a fierce gun battle today near India’s border with Nepal, leaving 21 dead in the first co-ordinated attack involving both Indian and Nepalese communist militants, police said.
The gun battle was triggered when some 400 suspected Maoist rebels attacked a police station and two state-run banks in Bihar state’s Madhuban village yesterday, said Director-General of Police Ashish Ranjan Sinha, the state police chief.
Madhuban is 90 miles north of Patna, the capital of Bihar.
The battle killed 17 militants, two police officers, one paramilitary soldier and a security guard at a government bank, said Sinha.
“The bodies of seven Maoists have been recovered, and a search is on for the rest,” said Sinha.
He said almost 100 Nepalese Maoists, fighting in the neighbouring country to topple the constitutional monarchy, were also involved.
The Nepalese rebel chief Pushpa Kamal Dahal has previously said that communist rebels from Nepal and India were in close contact, but no joint attack had been reported until yesterday."
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