Bhubaneswar, Jan 18 (Inditop.com) Maoist rebels Monday killed a trader in a village in Orissa’s Malkangiri district, police said.
Over a dozen armed rebels came to Khemaguru village, some 70 km from the district headquarter of Malkangiri and dragged Rama Gauda, 45, a village resident out of his home and silt his throat.
“Gauda was a local trader,” Deputy Inspector General of Police Sanjeev Panda told IANS.
In a separate incident, a group of rebels beat up Ananda Rao, a liquor trader at Janbai village under Chitrakonda police station area in the same district Sunday and set fire to his house.
More than half of state’s 30 districts are Maoist infested and the district of Malkangiri, 618 km from state capital Bhubaneswar is considered their stronghold.
