Timeline: Major Naxal attacks in the past in India

The death toll rose to 24 after an attack by suspected Maoist rebels against Congress Party leaders in central India as more bodies were recovered, including that of a state party chief, police said Sunday. Here are similar attacks

July 2010 A group of Maoists stormed into the house of Congress leader Avdesh Gautam in Dantewada district and killed his 15-year-old brother-in-law and an associate.

April 6, 2010 About 75 Central Reserve Police Force and a state police personnel were killed in Mukrana forests of Chhattisgarh’s Dantewada district.

April 13, 2009 Ten paramilitary troopers killed in eastern Odisha when Maoists attacked a bauxite mine in Koraput district.

September 26, 2009 Rebels killed sons of Bharatiya Janata Party MP from Balaghat Baliram Kashyap at Pairaguda village in Jagdalpur, Chhattisgarh.

October 8, 2009 Seventeen policemen were killed in an ambush by Maoists at the Laheri police station in Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra.

July 1, 2008 Maoist rebels carried out attacks on a police station, killing nine people, including policemen, at an outpost in Sasaram in Bihar’s Rohtas district and flee with arms and ammunition.

March 5, 2007 Jharkhand Mukti Morcha’s Lok Sabha member Sunil Kumar Mahato shot dead by Maoists. Two of his bodyguards and a party colleague also killed in the attack while watching a football match at a village in Jamshedpur in Jharkhand.

September 7, 2007 Former Andhra Pradesh chief minister N. Janardhan Reddy and his wife N. Rajyalakshmi escape unhurt while three Congress workers are killed in a Maoist attack in the state’s Nellore district.

February 9, 2006 Eight Central Industrial Security Force personnel killed when rebels raid a warehouse of the National Mineral Development Corporation and take away explosives from a village near Bailadila in Jagdalpur in Chhattisgarh.

November 13, 2005 Hundreds of activists of the banned Communist Party of India (Maoist) attack the police line in south Bihar’s Jehanabad district.