Naxals kill cop in Orissa

Suspected Maoists gunned down a police constable in Orissa's Malkangiri district on Sunday, police said.

Suspected Maoists gunned down a police constable in Orissa's Malkangiri district on Sunday, police said.

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Ramachandra Rao, who was posted at the police outpost at Padia, was on duty at the weekly tribal haat (market) when three ultras shot him dead, they said, adding the trio was in plain clothes.