Senior police officers pay homage to paramilitary soldiers, killed in Dantewada Maoists" attack, after they were brought at the airport in Lucknow on Wednesday, 07 April 2010. The bodies of 25 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) troopers were brought here by a special aircraft Wednesday afternoon, a day after they were killed in a Maoist strike in Chhattisgarh. Of the 75 CRPF personnel who lost their lives in the attack along with a Chhattisgarh policeman, 42 belonged to Uttar Pradesh.

Photographer: Sanjay Sonkar

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