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Five security personnel were killed and seven injured - two of them critically - after Naxals blew up an anti-landmine vehicle in Chhattisgarh's insurgency-hit district Dantewada. The blast occurred on Cholnar-Kirandul Road under Kirandul Police Station limits when the security personnel were patrolling along a road construction route, Inspector General of Police (Bastar Range) SRP Kalluri told Press Trust of India. The mine-protected vehicle, with 11 state police jawans aboard, was dispatched from Cholnar camp for security of the construction work in the region, around 450 kilometres from state capital Raipur. Sources say the Naxals used a lot of explosives to blow the anti-landmine vehicle. "A landmine vehicle was exploded by Naxals. Police officials reached the spot and took the injured