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 NEW DELHI, India (AP) - An hours-long battle between police and Maoist rebels armed with machine guns and mortars ended with the deaths of 25 rebels and 24 police, authorities 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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