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Six members of a marriage party were killed and four others injured in a landmine explosion, suspected to have been triggered by Naxals, in Maharashtra's Gadchiroli district.
Updated : May 05, 2011, 06:53 PM IST
Six members of a marriage party were today killed and four others injured in a landmine explosion, suspected to have been triggered by Naxals, in Maharashtra's Gadchiroli district.
Police said the blast occurred at Tewitola in Dhanora Taluka of Gadchiroli district this afternoon.
A marriage party was on its way from Rajnandgaon (Chhattisgarh) to Chandrapur when Naxals in the area carried out the blast, they said.
While six persons died on the spot, four others were injured and taken to Dhanora Civil Hospital, police said.