New Delhi: The Communist Party of India (Maoist), the banned outfit, is the fourth most deadly terror outfit after Taliban, the Islamic State and Boko Haram, data collected by a research centre in the United States has found.
According to reports, a total of 11,774 terror attacks took place across the world in 2015 and India was the fourth worst-affected country. However, attacks in India were relatively less lethal.
The report by the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism published that as many as 791 attacks took place in India last year and Maoists were behind 43 percent of them.
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).
