YAY!: Indian police missing after Maoist attack

At least 39 members of an elite Indian anti-insurgency unit were missing feared drowned in the east of the country on Sunday after their boat capsized following an attack by Maoist rebels, police said.

The boat, which was carrying 64 people, came under heavy rebel fire while patrolling a reservoir near Malkangiri, in the south of the coastal state of Orissa, police said.

Twenty-five policemen managed to swim ashore and were taken to hospital - many of them to be treated for serious gunshot wounds, police said.

No bodies have yet been found, although rescue officials recovered some police caps.

"The boat capsized after insurgents started firing indiscriminately at the Greyhound force," Malkangiri police superintendent, Satish Kumar Gajbhiye, told AFP by telephone from the area.

The attack was one of the biggest Maoist assaults on security personnel since March last year, when the rebels slaughtered 55 policemen in central Chhattisgarh state.

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YAY!: Indian police missing after Maoist attack

YAY!: Indian police missing after Maoist attack

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