Maoists gun down six in Bihar

Banned CPI Maoist guerrillas on Thursday shot dead six persons of a rival naxalite outfit in Bihar8217;s Rohtas district.

Six members of Sashastra People8217;s Morcha SPM, a naxalite outfit mostly active in Jharkhand, were shot dead in Tardih forest in Rohtas, AIG operations S K Bharadwaj said.

The victims, involved in armed resistance against the CPI Maoist, were renegade members of the organisation, Bharadwaj said.

Those killed were from Barachatti and Mohanpur areas of Gaya district close to Jharkhand border, he said.

Bharadwaj denied that those killed were police informers.