Maoists capsize boat with Indian policeman on board
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At least 40 policemen are missing in eastern India Sunday after their boat capsized following an attack by Maoist rebels.
Police say the boat came under heavy rebel fire while patrolling in the south of the coastal state of Orissa.
Eight policemen managed to swim ashore and were taken to hospital.
No bodies have yet been found.
The boat was carrying 50 members of a special counter-insurgency unit operating in the remote tribal district.
The Maoist insurgency grew out of a peasant uprising in 1967.
It has hit half of India's 29 states and is centred in a heavily forested region in central Chattisgarh state, which borders Orissa.
