Indian Maoists kill 10 policemen

Indian Maoists on Friday ambushed and shot dead 10 policemen in central India, police said, as fighting continued in Chhattisgarh state.
The attack occurred in the Dantewada district, a police spokesman said in the state capital, Raipur.
"Three Naxalite (Maoist) terrorists are also dead," the official said, adding the fighting was ongoing.
India's Maoist insurgency, which grew out of a peasant uprising in 1967, has hit more than half of the country's 29 states.
The rebels, who use the forests of Chhattisgarh as their base, say they are fighting for the rights of neglected tribal people and landless farmers.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has described the Maoists as the biggest overall threat to the country's security.