Indian authorities search for missing anti insurgency officers
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Indian police and soldiers are still searching for dozens of elite anti-insurgency officers feared dead after Maoist rebels attacked and sank their boat in a reservoir in the country's east.
Police say 29 officers had survived, but 37 others are still missing after the rebels fired from hilltops at their boat passing through a narrow gorge in Orissa state on Sunday.
The anti-insurgency unit was looking for rebels in their jungle stronghold when they were attacked.
Sunday's attack was the biggest since rebels killed more than 50 policemen in neighbouring Chhattisgarh state last year.
The Maoist rebels active in eastern and central India say they fighting for the rights of the poor and landless.
But Prime Minister Manmohan Singh describes the insurgency as the single biggest threat to India's internal security.
