Maoists abduct 17 traders in Chhattisgarh
Seventeen traders, including three women, have been abducted by Maoists in Kanker district of Chhattisgarh.
By PTI |
RAIPUR: Seventeen traders, including three women, have been abducted by Maoists in Kanker district of Chhattisgarh. Of the 17 kidnapped last night, three are still untraced, a top police official said today.
A group of armed Maoists abducted 17 traders, including three women, near Konde village, about 195 km from the state capital when they were going to Badgaon weekly market in a truck, Kanker District Superintendent of Police Praveer Kumar Das said.
While police teams have been dispatched from Durg Kondal police station to trace the missing traders, 14 of them have returned safely today, Das said.
However, the Maoists have taken three traders - Rakesh Singh and two of his brothers - with them into the forest, he said.
The Maoists also set ablaze the truck, in which the traders were carrying their grocery goods for the weekly market, the SP said.
Including Kanker, all the five districts of the Bastar region are worst hit by violence unleashed by the Left wing extremists because of which the state has deployed Central forces to combat them.
A group of armed Maoists abducted 17 traders, including three women, near Konde village, about 195 km from the state capital when they were going to Badgaon weekly market in a truck, Kanker District Superintendent of Police Praveer Kumar Das said.
While police teams have been dispatched from Durg Kondal police station to trace the missing traders, 14 of them have returned safely today, Das said.
However, the Maoists have taken three traders - Rakesh Singh and two of his brothers - with them into the forest, he said.
The Maoists also set ablaze the truck, in which the traders were carrying their grocery goods for the weekly market, the SP said.
Including Kanker, all the five districts of the Bastar region are worst hit by violence unleashed by the Left wing extremists because of which the state has deployed Central forces to combat them.
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