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A gang of criminals ambushed and fired on police who had come to arrest them in a northern Indian village early Friday, killing eight of the officers, a government official said.
The criminals blocked a road with excavators and fired on the police officers from rooftops, said Awanish Awasthi, an Uttar Pradesh state government spokesman. The assailants fled before police reinforcements could reach the area, Awasthi said.
The village is near Kanpur, a town 80km southwest of Lucknow, the Uttar Pradesh state capital.
The police had gone to the village to arrest Vikas Dubey, a top suspect in dozens of crimes, including kidnappings and the killing of a nationalist regional leader.
State police director-general H. C. Awasthi said Vikas might have got an inkling of the police raid on his hideout and took them by surprise.
Police are investigating how many assailants were involved in Friday's attack.
Dubey is allegedly involved in 60 cases of murder, robberies and kidnappings in police records.
He was accused of killing local Bharatiya Janata Party leader Santosh Shukla in a police station in 2001. Two police were also killed in the attack.
Dubey, who is in his 40s, is also accused of killing a college principal in 2000
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