Suspected leftist guerrillas blew up a police jeep in India's eastern state of Bihar today, killing 12 people, ten of them policemen, police said.
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Indian security personnel uses an umbrella to shade from the sun.
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The jeep ran over a landmine in the district of Rohtas in southern Bihar which is a stronghold of the People's War, a radical group that says it fights for land for poor peasants.
"It is the work of extremists," a police spokesman said, adding that a police patrol had fired on the guerrillas in the area yesterday.
Bihar is India's second most populous state and its poorest.
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The People's War and another outlawed group, the Maoist Communist Centre, have often targeted policemen, accusing the authorities of repression.