π«A 48-year-old man was killed by Naxalites on the suspicion of being a police informer in Chhattisgarh's Bijapur district, police said on Friday.
βAs per preliminary information, a group of Naxalites abducted Sukku Hapka, a resident of Hallur village under the Mirtur police station area, from his house on Thursday evening and strangled him, an official said.
α¦He said the man's body was later found abandoned in the area.
πΊThe official said a police team rushed to the spot in the morning. The team found a pamphlet issued by the Bhairamgarh area committee of Maoists at the scene in which they claimed the victim was a police informer.
π¬A search operation has been launched in the area to trace the assailants, he said.
π³According to police, 68 civilians have died in separate incidents of Maoist violence in the Bastar region comprising seven districts, including Bijapur, last year.
