Red Revenge: Maoists kill three Jharkhand villagers

In a vendetta killing, Maoist ultras slit the throats of three persons in Hadian village near here late on Friday night.

In a vendetta killing, Maoist ultras slit the throats of three persons in Hadian village near here late on Friday night. The incident, under the Naxal-hit Ghorabandha police station, was reportedly to avenge the killing of 13 Maoists by villagers three years ago.

DSP S P Burnwal said the armed ultras dragged Gurucharan Munda, Sukhra Munda and Sorai Munda from their respective houses and slit their throats atop a nearby hill. The bodies have been recovered and sent to the M G M Hospital here for postmortem.

Burnwal said SP Ashish Batra and Additional SP Sudhir Kumar Jha have rushed to the spot with a police force.

In posters pasted on the walls of the victims’ houses, the CPI (Maoist) owned responsibility for the killings saying the three were executed to avenge the murder of 13 Maoists by the villagers three years ago.

Maoists gun down Orissa cop

Berhampur (Orissa): Suspected Maoists on Saturday shot dead a police officer in a crowded market at a village in Malkangiri district, official sources said. Durga Charan Mishra, officer-in-charge of Motu police station, was shot at from close range at around 11 am. He died on the spot. An assistant sub-inspector, who accompanied Mishra to the market, however, managed to escape, the sources said. They said the killing might have been carried out in retaliation for the gunning down of two women Naxalites in an encounter with security forces on the Orissa-Andhra Pradesh border last Tuesday.