Gadchiroli:
Two students of a tribal school, aged 10 and 11 years old, are the latest victims of Naxal violence. They were killed in crossfire during an encounter between the Naxals and the security forces that began on Friday afternoon on the outskirts of Savargaon village at Maharashtra-Chhattisgarh border.
Ten more students lie injured in the hospital. Naxals killed three security men in the encounter.
The head master of the school has told the police that a grenade landed in a classroom killing two students, a woman employee and a villager.
This attack comes within days of a Naxal landmine blast in nearby Perimili in which four policemen were killed.
Within hours, there was another mine explosion in which eight policemen were injured.
While Chhattisgarh remains the focus of Maoist violence, Gadchiroli in Maharashtra had seen a lull over the last year - a calm which now seems broken.