Suspected communist rebels blew up a vehicle carrying government forces in India's restive east on Wednesday, killing at least nine people, police said. The attackers detonated a land mine as the nine were returning after delivering supplies to a police station in Dantewada district, about 315 miles (500 kilometers) south of Raipur, the capital of Jharkhand state, said Amarnath Upadhyaya, a police inspector-general. Those killed were two paramilitary soldiers, four members of a government-supported armed vigilante group that fights suspected rebels and three civilians, Upadhyaya told The Associated Press. The rebels escaped after the attack, he said.
