Qualla: April 2010 Maoist Attack in Dantewada https://qualla.com/april-2010-maoist-attack-in-dantewada en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:31 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: April 2010 Maoist Attack in Dantewada https://qualla.com/april-2010-maoist-attack-in-dantewada April 2010 Maoist Attack in Dantewada: Introduction https://qualla.com/april-2010-maoist-attack-in-dantewada/ On the morning of April 6, 2010, a patrol of Central Reserve Police Force personnel was returning to base through the Talmetla area of Dantewada district, Chhattisgarh. They took the same route they had used on the way out. Roughly 300 Maoist fighters were waiting. The ambush that followed killed 76 CRPF policemen, making it the deadliest single attack by Naxalite-Maoist insurgents on Indian security forces. Eight Maoists also died. India's home minister, P. Chidambaram, would later say the forces appeared to have "walked into a trap," a clinical assessment that did little to capture the scale of what happened in the forests of Bastar that morning.

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