Maoist attack in Lalgarh West bengal, 3 Killed

Maoists on Wednesday roamed Lalgarh and formed a human shield comprising women and children even as three CPI-M activists were killed in fresh outbreak of violence, after which WBengal decided to launch an operation against the naxals without saying when. The CPI-M men, who were having tea at a shop on Wednesday morning after night-long patrol in the forest against the tribal agitators, were shot dead by six unidentified men who came on motorcycles, Jhargram SDO Ulaganathan said.

Seven companies of paramilitary forces, including two of a Cobra battalion (a special force raised to combat Left- wing extremists) arrived at Jhargram and were standing by. "We are not in a hurry at present, we watching the situation," a senior police official told at Jhargram.