Maoists kill two, torch vehicles in Koraput

-- Abducted M’giri Sarpanch’s son freed

MALKANGIRI/JEYPORE: Again the Maoists unleashed terror by killing two persons and torching vehicles in Koraput district on Saturday night.

According to reports, a group of over 30 armed Maoists conducted a raid at Kumbhariput village under Bandhugaon police limits late on Saturday night and terrorised the people by killing two persons and torching two road rollers, a JCB and a tractor owned by ARSS Company.

Bodies of two persons with their throats slit open have been recovered on Sunday morning. They have been identified as Huika Daso(50) and Saraka Bandu (50). The Maoists alleged that the duo was acting as police informers, sources said.

They have also ransacked a telephone exchange, police sources said.

In another incident, the Maoists released two abducted villagers on Sunday threatening them to stop directly or indirectly helping the security forces, after four days of abduction of tribals from Gamphakonda village in Malkangiri district.

On Thursday, one among the three tribals whom the Maoists had abducted on Wednesday night got escaped from the clutches of the ultras. The other two including Gamphakonda Sarpanch’s son Padia Madhi reached the village on Sunday.

The Maoists alleged that they were helping the security forces in the anti-Maoist operations. During Padia’s release, the ultras threatened him to tell his father and Gamphakonda Sarpanch Irma Madhi to resign from his post.

After the abductions, a joint team of BSF and DVF jawans had launched search operations in the Tundukibatla forest near Gamphakonda resulting in an exchange of fire between the Maoists and the security personnel for about two hours on Thursday.