RAIPUR: Maoists in Chhattisgarh’s Bastar region abducted late Thursday three tribal villagers on suspicion of being police informers and strangled to death one of the captives before dumping the body on the outskirts of the village to seemingly warn others of what might befall those working against the outfit. The abductors freed the other two villagers after a thrashing.
The abductions from Hallur village in Bijapur were reported hours after 12 Maoists, five of them women, were gunned down in an operation by security forces in the south Bastar belt of the same district.
In neighbouring Narayanpur, two BSF personnel were wounded Friday in a blast triggered by one of them stepping on an improvised explosive device suspected to have been planted by Maoists. They were part of a patrol team from a BSF camp near Garpa village.
In Hallur, the Maoist raiders took the abducted villagers deep inside a forest for what they said was “punishment” for allegedly collaborating with police.
