Tribal people burned incense and picked a few remaining bones to throw to the river in a traditional Hindu ritual. The ashes spread out over the grass were ankle deep. "Where were the police? They were drunk, hiding with their weapons," shouted Gopal Ran Udhe, who lost his son in a Maoist attack on a nearby police post that killed 55 police and tribal militia members in one of India's worst rebel attacks in decades. MANGAPET, India, March 28 (Reuters) - Wailing parents scooped up the bones of loved ones as eight cremated corpses smouldered by the road, the latest victims of a Maoist rebel war that has put tens of thousands of tribal people in the crossfire.
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