What the records say
- When
- 2015
- Kind
- Shooting
- Killed
- 20
- Coordinates
- 13.58° N, 79.32° E
- Date from
- year in its name
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
2015 sandalwood smugglers encounter in Andhra Pradesh
On 7 April 2015, Andhra Pradesh Police shot twenty Tamil Red sandle smugglers in the Seshachalam forest in Chittoor District, Andhra Pradesh, India. Red Sanders Anti-Smuggling Task Force DIG Kantha Rao said that the smugglers attacked the team with sickles, rods and axes. Asked if the attack could have been quelled without such fatalities, Rao said, "We gave them several warnings but they did not stop attacking us.
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