Bastar (Chhattisgarh):Three civilians were shot dead by the Maoists in
Chhattisgarh's Bastar district on charges of being police informers. According to sources, the Maoists stormed into Pattegaon village in Bastar district and
took away four people. The bullet-ridden bodies of three of them were found in
a forest on Monday. "They (the Maoists) tied the three of us together, and locked
up the other family members in a room. They then beat us up and thrashed us, and
three died on the spot," said Parshuram, the injured victim. Meanwhile, in Jharkhand,
suspected Maoists killed two villagers in Simdega District. The Maoists tricked
the two into going to a nearby jungle, and later shot them and threw their bodies
at a crossroad. Police officials found a letter in which it was written that the
victims were members of a militant group called the Jharkhand Liberation Tigers
(JLT), and were police informers.
