Naxalites have blown up a civilian bus at Chingawaram near Dantewada in Chhattisgarh. Fifty people are feared killed. There were CRPF jawans travelling on the bus, along with civilians. Early reports said at least 30 people had been killed in the landmine blast. But Special DG V Raman said: "I fear at least 50 dead, we are checking." Policemen traveling on the bus are believed to have been the main targets, as the Maoists may have had information about a police party being on it.

Dantewada had witnessed the worst-ever massacre of CRPF jawans only last month, when 76 jawans were killed in a Naxal ambush.