Indian police Gun down 8 Maoists

Police killed eight Maoist rebels in a firefight in India's eastern Jharkhand state, an official spokesman said Tuesday.
Security forces raided the Ranka forest overnight from Monday to Tuesday after receiving a tip, police spokesman Raj Kumar Mallik said.
"The security personnel rounded up the Maoist rebels and asked them to surrender. The rebels started firing, and in the gun battle eight rebels were killed," he said.