New Delhi. .- At least 30 Maoist guerrillas and three members of the lost Indian security forces today killed in a clash in the central state of Chattisgarh, said a police source. The incident took place in the area of \u200b\u200bconflict Chintalnaar Dantewada district, considered the main guerrilla stronghold, where the rebels ambushed a contingent of 145 policemen, said the deputy general director of operations, Ram Niwas, was quoted as saying PTI.
"In the ambush, three of our men were killed and nine injured," Niwas, adding that the security forces returned fire and struck down thirty guerrillas, according to preliminary estimates. "The shooting is over. Now we are looking for the bodies," said the police chief. The Maoists have their strongholds in the so-called "red belt" of India, a strip of territory in central and east of the country where they have training camps and seek the support of the peasantry to impose a Maoist agrarian revolution cutting.
The guerrillas, known in India as Naxalites, after staging a revolt was born in the village Naxalbari Bengali in 1967, but in the 1970 and 1980 was wiped out by the Government of Bengal, controlled by the Communists and moved to neighboring states of Bihar and Chhattisgarh Jharhkhand. The Maoist guerrillas has been declared the main threat to internal security of India by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
Earlier this year, the Indian government stood at 1,169 the number of fatalities in 2010 in connection with the conflict between the government and Maoist rebels, and said they have increased the violence of the insurgency. According to these data, the fatalities were 285 members of the security forces, 171 civilians and 713 insurgents, the latter all in charge of the Maoists, officials said. 
"In the ambush, three of our men were killed and nine injured," Niwas, adding that the security forces returned fire and struck down thirty guerrillas, according to preliminary estimates. "The shooting is over. Now we are looking for the bodies," said the police chief. The Maoists have their strongholds in the so-called "red belt" of India, a strip of territory in central and east of the country where they have training camps and seek the support of the peasantry to impose a Maoist agrarian revolution cutting.
The guerrillas, known in India as Naxalites, after staging a revolt was born in the village Naxalbari Bengali in 1967, but in the 1970 and 1980 was wiped out by the Government of Bengal, controlled by the Communists and moved to neighboring states of Bihar and Chhattisgarh Jharhkhand. The Maoist guerrillas has been declared the main threat to internal security of India by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
Earlier this year, the Indian government stood at 1,169 the number of fatalities in 2010 in connection with the conflict between the government and Maoist rebels, and said they have increased the violence of the insurgency. According to these data, the fatalities were 285 members of the security forces, 171 civilians and 713 insurgents, the latter all in charge of the Maoists, officials said.
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