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NEW DELHI, India (AP) - Maoist rebels using mortars and machine guns battled police in eastern India in an hours-long fight that left 24 policemen and 25 rebels dead, a police official said Wednesday.
The rebels ambushed more than 100 policemen and the gunbattle lasted more than five hours in Dantewada district of Chattisgarh state, said Rajendra Kumar Vij, inspector general of state police.
At least 25 communist rebels were also killed in the gunbattle Monday night, but their bodies were yet to be recovered, he said.
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