Naxals on Saturday morning shot dead six and abducted 12 in the Maoist-infested Dharhara belt of Munger district in Bihar. The incident occurred at around 5 am when, according to Kareli residents, about 25 Maoists in CRPF uniform armed with AK-47 rifles and other sophisticated weapons stormed the village ? about 200 km from Patna ? and opened fire, killing six, ADGP (Headquarters) Rajbardhan Sharma said.
Of the dead, four belong to the extremely backward caste Ghatwar and two were tribals. They have been identified as Shiban Rai (32), Sunil Rai (33), Naresh Rai (25), Ramdev Rai (40), Narayan Koda (50) and Congress Koda (43).
Kajra, the site of the last September?s encounter in which eight policemen were killed, is just 20 km from Kareli.
The police reached the village two hours after the incident from the Dharhara police station, 8 km from Kareli.
The Naxals, according to the villagers, left the village with the threat of repeating the Kodasi massacre in Jamui, in which 11 tribals were killed last year.
They are believed to have slipped into adjoining Raunkabad hills, a known Naxal hideout and part of the red corridor, with the abducted people. Before leaving, they also fired at the house of the mukhiya, Sulo Devi.
Ashok Koda, husband of Sulo Devi, said: ?As my wife has been working for the development of the area, they first came looking for me. They were in police uniform but I doubted their identity and did not come out of my house. Soon, they started firing bullets at my house.?
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