Maoists kill officers in Indian jungle

Forty-nine Indian policemen and local tribal militias were killed yesterday in an attack by Maoist guerrillas on a jungle security camp in the east of the country.

The rebels used hand grenades and petrol bombs in an attack that was said to underline the presence of Maoists in much of rural India where they have formed a "red corridor" stretching from the southern tip of India to Nepal.