The 2010 Dantewada bus bombing occurred on 17 May 2010 when a bus hit a landmine 50 km away from Dantewada, in Chhattisgarh's Dantewada district.
Fatalities reports range from 31[2] to 44,[3] including several Special Police Officers (SPOs) and civilians.
[4][2] It was the first Naxal attack to target a civilian bus.
[5] The attack occurred one month after Dantewada witnessed the worst-ever massacre of CRPF jawans, when 76 troops were killed in the April 2010 Maoist attack in Dantewada.