In yet another gruesome Naxal attack, a woman working for a village revenue department, and a 50-year-old man were murdered on Saturday evening. The police said that the Naxals suspected that the two were police informers.
According to the police, a group of Naxals killed Mayabai Sukhdeo Duga, (40), by slitting her throat in the Talaitola area in Gadchiroli’s Dhanora taluka on Saturday night. Later, the attackers went to the Mendherola village in Dhanora, where they murdered Murlidhar Mahadore early on Sunday, the police said.
“The motive behind the committing the murders on October 2 was to spread violence on the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, the preacher of non-violence,” said inspector P. Navnath from Gadchiroli.
According to Mr Navnath, the police has now intensified its search operations in the nearby jungles. “We have made separate teams, and have deployed them in the jungles to look out for the assailants,” he said. The murders have occurred a day after the police arrested four Naxals on Friday, acting on a tip off.
“Off late, the Naxals have been targeting their former comrades who have surrendered to the government, in order to discourage others from doing the same. But in this case they had suspected the victims to be police informers,” he said. Former Naxalite Karuna alias Bakka Durgam, (22), was murdered in Gadchiroli last week.
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Bodies of 3 IAF personnel recovered
Hyderabad, Oct. 3: The bodies of three trainee technicians of the Indian Air Force were recovered from a lake on the city’s outskirts on Sunday, police said. The trio from Helicopter Training School of the Air Force Station Hakimpet were drowned Saturday evening during a picnic at Shameerpet Lake.
The dead have been identified as R.S. Badaria, Satyam Chowdary and Manish Tiyagi, all in their mid-20s. A group of eight technicians had gone to the picnic, which turned tragic when Tiyagi, from Uttar Pradesh, stepped into the water to wash his legs and slipped. The deep portion of the lake was full to the brim. —IANS