The death toll and those injured in Saturday’s attack by Maoist insurgents on the Congress convoy at Dharbha Ghati valley , about 35 kms from Sukma had reached 24.
While a list of those dead and injured had been collected from various hospitals, search is still underway to find out in the jungles if there are any more bodies lying about who might have been taken hostage and killed by the insurgents, a police official in the know of the combing operations informed here.
The list of persons who died in yesterday’s Maoist attack Chhattisgarh PCC chief Nand Kumar Patel. His son Dinesh Patel, Former leader of Opposition Mahendra Karma, Uday Mudaliyar,
former MlA from Rajnandgaon Gopichand Madhwani, Manoj Kumar, Chandrabhan Dhruv, Rajesh Chandrakar, Yogesh Sharma, Alladhoor, Emanual Kerketta, R Ashok Kumar, Praful Shukla, Abhishek Golcha and Ganpat Nag.
list of those injured in the attack- Former Union Minister Vidya Charan Shukla, Konta MlA Kawasi lakhma,Former Keshkal MlA Phulo Devi Netam, Former MlA Dhamtari Harshad Mehta, Shivnarayan Dwivedi, Malkeet Singh, Satar Ali, Nikhil Dwivedi, Rajiv Narang, Choleshwar Chandrakar, Anna Singh, Abdul Majid Khan, Oyi Ram, Ram Avatar, Rajesh Mishra, Chandra Shekhar Yadav, Rehan Khan, Surendra Sharma and Chandrabhan Jhadi.