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Naxal attack on relief camp, toll rises to 33

Dantewara, Chhattisgarh, July 18 (UNI) The death toll in the naxalite attack on a relief camp here rose to 33, with the recovery of six bodies near Erabor village and death of an injured at a hospital at Bhadrachalam in Andhra Pradesh today.

In a pre-dawn attack yesterday on a relief camp at Erabor, 130 km from here, sheltering about 5000 villagers displaced in the hostilities between the ultras and security forces since the launch of 'Salwa Judum' anti-naxal campaign last year, 26 people were killed. Of them, 18 were axed to death, 2 shot dead and 6 others burnt alive.

Of the 40 people, including 31 women, abducted by the ultras, bodies of six, including a lady Special Police Officer, were recovered from the roadside, 4 Km away from the camp on Erabor-Sukma road, police said.

Among the 17 injured admitted to a hospital at Bhadrachalam in Andhra Pradesh, one succumbed to injuries.

More than 60 were injured in the attack by about 500 CPI(Maoist) naxalites. Four were hospitalised at Konta, while others were discharged after being administered first aid.

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Indonesia quake too weak for oceanwide tsunami

SYDNEY, July 18 (Reuters) A tsunami that hit Indonesia's Java island killing at least 230 people remained localised because the earthquake that caused it was dramatically smaller than the 2004 quake that generated an Indian Ocean-wide tsunami. Seismologists also said the earthquake's physical area was significantly smaller and caused only a small change in the ocean floor, limiting the size of the tsunami that hit Java yesterday. The two quakes were not linked, except that.....

Car bomb in Iraq's Kufa kills 39

KUFA, Iraq, July 18 (Reuters) A car bomb hit a group of labourers in a crowded market in the southern Iraqi city of Kufa today , killing 39 people and wounding 55, police said. The blast occured 50-100 metres from a Shi'ite shrine as labourers were boarding a minibus that had pulled into the crowd looking for workers, witnesses said. REUTERS SB SND1144.....

Pakistan arrests scores of Taliban in crackdown

QUETTA, Pakistan, July 18 (Reuters) Pakistan arrested about 52 Taliban militants in raids overnight in the southwest province of Baluchistan, taking action that Afghanistan, the United States and NATO powers have long called for. ''They are Taliban, and they have links with those living in Afghanistan. They had no documents so we will hand them over to the Afghan authorities,'' Chaudhary Mohammad Yaqub, Baluchistan's police chief, today told Reuters. A total 150 Afghans had been arrested.....
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