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India says Maoist rebel chief killed in ‘breakthrough’ blow

More than 12,000 rebels, soldiers and civilians have died since a handful of villagers rose up and formed a rebel movement in India in 1967 [File: Sanjeev Gupta/EPA]

Indian forces have killed the Maoist rebel chief and dozens of other fighters, the country’s home minister says, calling it a decisive blow in a decades-long conflict.

India has been waging an all-out offensive against the last remaining groups of the Naxalite rebellion, a far-left Maoist-inspired fighting movement that began in 1967.

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