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Naxalites stab trader to death

KORAPUT: Bijay Kumar Degul, a local trader in his twenties, was stabbed to death by a group of armed naxalites in front of his father Dinabandhu at Sanpalmanda village in Kabiribedi panchayat of Bandhugaon block in Koraput district on Wednesday night.

According to sources, a group of six naxalites, including two women, entered the village and asked Bijay and his father to come out of their house. After taking them to the outskirts of the village, the naxalites tied both of them to two adjacent trees before stabbing Bijay alleging him to be a police informer.

In a letter left in the place, the Koraput area committee of CPI (Maoist) justified the killing of Bijay by saying that the trader was an oppressor of the tribal masses and on the basis of his information, the police was able to conduct a raid on the naxal camp of Dintiguda on the boarders of Orissa and Andhra Pradesh in November last.

The committee also warned the State government and more specifically the CRPF and other groups of police in the State of serious attacks in future for their alleged involvement and support in the rapid industrialisation and mining activities in the State.

Opposing the latest move by the State government to have links with foreign companies, the letter alleged that Naveen Pattnaik was selling the mineral wealth of the State to the developed countries like German, Japan and USA at the cost of the welfare of the common people .

While there were no serious activities by naxalites reported in the district for quite a long time, the killing of a local youth in the village created panic among people. However, special operation groups of police and CRPF personnel began combing operation in the area immediately after the killing.

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