Naxals kill two villagers in Chhattisgarh branding them as police informers

RAIPUR:A group of Maoists allegedly killed two villagers at separate places in Chhattisgarh's Dantewada district today while suspecting them to be working as police informers.

While 63-year-old Sukku Patel was killed at Pandewar village under Faraspal police station limits, another villager, identified as Chitranjan, was murdered in Gondpal village under Dantewada police station area, according to Dantewada SP Kamlochan Kashyap.

As per the preliminary investigation, a group of ultras stormed into the house of Patel in the wee hours and dragged him out saying he was a police informer, he said, adding they attacked Patel with sharp-edged weapons killing him on the spot.

Chitranjan was also killed in a similar way at Gondpal village, Kashyap added.

Police personnel were dispatched to the spot and the bodies were sent for postmortem.

A combing operation was launched in the region following the killings, the SP added.