Police: Indian Maoist rebels kill 5 before national election

DANTEWADA, India (AP) — Maoist rebels staged a deadly attack Tuesday on a convoy of India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, killing a state party lawmaker and four other people in his vehicle with an improvised explosive device in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh, police said.
The rebels detonated the device in the Dantewada district — an insurgent stronghold — just two days before a multi-phase general election begins in India, police officer P. Sunder Raj said.
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