Naxals kill tribal youth on suspicion of police informer

A tribal youth was allegedly axed to death outside his house in Laheri village by Naxalites on suspicion that he was a police informer, police said today.

A tribal youth was allegedly axed to death outside his house in Laheri village by Naxalites on suspicion that he was a police informer, police said on Thursday.

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Police said suspected Maoist insurgents called out Bandu Durga Pungati (27) outside his house last afternoon and attacked him with an axe before slitting his throat with a sharp-edged weapon.

"Pungati was murdered as the ultras suspected that he was a police informer", police said, adding that a case was registered against unidentified persons at Laheri sub-police station.