Seeleru (Visakhapatnam): Maoists killed two of the three tribals who they abducted and torched a mobile phone tower at Kyang village under Mattili police station limits in Malkangiri district of Odisha, 70 km from here, late on Wednesday night.
The extremists had abducted the three persons on Tuesday night from the village suspecting them to be police moles.
Malkangiri SP Akhileswar Singh said, the Maoist outlaws set the third person, Podamal Pujari, a member of an NGO operating in the area, free. But there is no official word from the Maoists yet on it. The deceased persons have been identified as Gopi Pujari alias Jyothy Pujari, a wine shop owner and Hatiram Pujari, a farmer.
According to police sources, the three people were abducted by the Darba divisional committee squad, one of the committees operating on the Chhattisgarh-Odisha border.
The Naxalites left the on a forest road after gunning them down. While there were rumours that the Maoists also slit the throats of their captives, sources said the bodies bore only gunshot wounds.
They also left hand-written posters beside the dead bodies. The posters, released in the name of Darba divisional committee, claimed that it had given repeated warnings to the duo before “punishing” them.
The poster also alleged that the slain tribals had not changed their attitude and continued to act as a “police agents.”
Sources said that Gopi Pujari was kidnapped during a village festival on April 19. The other two were abducted on April 23. But the kidnapping came to light only on Wednesday. The people of villages surrounding Kyang believe that the duo were killed by the armed Naxalites numbering over 50 after setting a cell tower in the same area on fire.
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