No kids, eerie silence: Red flags missed before Naxalite attack in Dantewada that killed 10 jawans, driver

A blow-by-blow account of one of the drivers who escaped the Dantewada IED blast by seconds indicates ominous signals were missed before the Maoist ambush that left 10 men of Chhattisgarh police and a civilian driver dead on Wednesday. Even in the Burkapal massacre of April 2021, villages on the CRPF jawans’ route had emptied out when they were returning, and there was an eerie silence before the Maoists engaged the forces with assault rifles.

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