Maoists kill two people in eastern India

Fri, 05 Nov 2010

New Delhi - Maoist rebels shot dead two villagers and injured four more in a revenge attack in India's eastern state of Bihar on Friday, police said.

The group of 30 rebels struck in a village in Banka district, 200 kilometers south-east of state capital Patna, and opened fire on the locals.

"Two villagers were killed and four were seriously injured. They have been admitted at a local hospital but are out of danger," police spokesman PK Thakur said.

"The killings were apparently in retaliation for an incident in 2008 in which the villagers caught some Maoist militants and killed one of them," he added.

Additional forces had been dispatched to the region, the spokesman said.

More than a third of India's 626 administrative districts are affected by the insurgency, which has left more than 1,000 people dead since January.

Source: Earth Times.
Link: http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/news/352065,kill-people-eastern-india.html.