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Maoists fourth deadliest terror outfit after Taliban, IS, Boko Haram

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In a major cause of concern for the Indian authorities, a US-sponsored study has now claimed that the banned CPI-Maoists are the fourth dreaded terrorist outfit in the world after Taliban, Islamic State and Boko Haram.

The world witnessed 11,774 terror attacks in 2015, in which 28,328 people were killed and 35,320 injured. India was the fourth worst-affected country after Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan, with 43% of 791 attacks in the country carried out by Naxalites. A total of 289 Indians died in terror strikes.

At least 176 people were killed in about 343 attacks carried out by the CPI (Maoists) across the country, over half of them in Chhattisgarh (21 percent), Manipur (12 percent), Jammu and Kashmir (11 percent) and Jharkhand+ (10 percent).

The number of attacks in Chhattisgarh rose to 167 in 2015 from 76 in 2014, the data found.

Islamic State, on the other hand, launched 931 attacks which left 6,050 people dead. Boko Haram, Nigeria’s militant Islamic group, carried out 491 attacks killing a total of 5,450 people. Taliban were involved in 1,093 strikes in which 4,512 people lost their lives. Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which rounded off the top five in the list, was involved in 238 strikes, killing 287.

The report said there was great diversity in the perpetrators/terrorist groups involved in attacks in the country, with 45 outfits active across the country. The Naxals alone accounted for 43% of terrorist attacks in India last year. The report said the number of people kidnapped/taken hostage by terrorists and insurgent groups in India almost tripled in 2015, increasing to 862 from 305 in 2014. Of this, Naxals alone kidnapped/took hostage 707 persons last year compared with 163 in 2014. In 2014, there were no attacks in which 50 or more people were kidnapped or taken hostage while in 2015, there were seven such attacks, all of them attributed to Maoists.

However, the data collected by Home Ministry also revealed that as many as 2,162 civilians and 802 security personnel were killed by Naxals between 2010 and 2015.

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